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US 12,310,771 · App. 18/584,941 · Granted May 27, 2025

X-ray diagnosis apparatus and image processing apparatus

Inventors: Takuya Sakaguchi (Tochigi, JP); Kyojiro Nambu (Tochigi, JP); Hisato Takemoto (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
A61B6/12A61B6/4441A61B6/461A61B6/486A61B6/504A61B6/5205G06T7/0012G06T7/11G06T7/246A61B5/318A61B6/481G06T2207/10116G06T2207/10121G06T2207/20104G06T2207/20164G06T2207/30021G06T2207/30048G06T2207/30052G06T2207/30101G06T2207/30204
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Patent No.
US 12,310,771
App. No.
18/584,941
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A marker-coordinate detecting unit detects coordinates of a stent marker on a new image when the new image is stored in an image-data storage unit; and then a correction-image creating unit creates a correction image from the new image through, for example, image transformation processing, so as to match up the detected coordinates with reference coordinates that are coordinates of the stent marker already detected by the marker-coordinate detecting unit in a first frame. An image post-processing unit then creates an image for display by performing post-processing on the correction image created by the correction-image creating unit, the post-processing including high-frequency noise reduction filtering-processing, low-frequency component removal filtering-processing, and logarithmic-image creating processing; and then a system control unit performs control of displaying a moving image of an enlarged image of a set region that is set in the image for display, together with an original image.

Claims (22)

1. A method comprising:

acquiring first X-ray images along a time sequence;

detecting a position of a first feature point on each of the first X-ray images;

generating correction images from the first X-ray images through at least one of image shift and image transformation, based on the positions of the first feature points on the first X-ray images; and

performing control of displaying the correction images from the first X-ray images,

wherein in a case in which a second feature point is not detected or extracted from a second X-ray image acquired after the first X-ray images, control of displaying an image by using at least one of the correction images is performed.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the case in which the second feature point is not detected or extracted from the second X-ray image acquired after the first X-ray images, control of continuously displaying the image is performed.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case in which the image is continuously displayed, control of displaying a warning is performed.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the warning is a mark indicated on the image.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the mark is displayed in a quiet color on the image.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case in which the second feature point is not continuously detected or extracted a predetermined number of times, control of stopping display of the image is performed.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein, in a case in which the second feature point is continuously detected after the control of stopping display of the image is performed, control of displaying a newly created image is performed.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising performing control of displaying the second X-ray image while displaying the image.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing control of displaying the correction images is performed in such a manner that a region determined based on the position of the second feature point is enlarged.

10. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising performing control of displaying the second X-ray image in such a manner that the displayed second X-ray image is added with information indicating the enlarged region.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the performing control of displaying the correction images comprises controlling the position of the first feature points on the correction image so as to be centered on a screen of a display.

12. An image processing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry configured:

to detect a position of a first feature point on each of first X-ray images,

to generate correction images from the first X-ray images through at least one of image shift and image transformation, based on the positions of the first feature points on the first X-ray images, and

to perform control of displaying the correction images from the first X-ray images,

wherein in a case in which a second feature point is not detected or extracted from a second X-ray image acquired after the first X-ray images, control of displaying an image by using at least one of the correction images is performed.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-275348 · Oct 27, 2008 · national
Continuity (8)
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Continuation 17073736 · Oct 19, 2020
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Division 16026920 · Jul 3, 2018
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Division 14058906 · Oct 21, 2013
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