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US 12,471,867 · App. 18/452,493 · Granted Nov 18, 2025

Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program

Inventor: Tomoyuki Takahashi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
A61B6/505A61B5/4509A61B6/5205A61B6/5252G06T2207/30008
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Patent No.
US 12,471,867
App. No.
18/452,493
Granted
Nov 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A processor, specifies a target bone, which is a target of evaluation, by excluding a fracture and an artificial object in a bone part image in which at least a bone component of a subject is extracted, and derives an evaluation result indicating a state of a bone of the subject based on the target bone.

Claims (26)

1 . An image processing device comprising:

at least one processor,

wherein the processor

specifies a target bone, which is a target of evaluation, by excluding a fracture and an artificial object in a bone part image in which at least a bone component of a subject is extracted,

derives an evaluation result indicating a state of a bone of the subject based on the target bone, and

derives a relationship with a bone adjacent to the target bone, as an indicator indicating the state of the bone, and derives the evaluation result based on the indicator.

2 . The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor derives the bone part image from a first radiation image and a second radiation image, which are acquired by imaging the subject with radiation having different energy distributions.

3 . The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor derives at least one of a bone density of the target bone or information on a microstructure of the target bone, as the indicator indicating the state of the bone, and derives the evaluation result based on the indicator.

4 . The image processing device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the processor derives a representative value of the bone density in the target bone as the indicator.

5 . The image processing device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor derives the representative value of the bone density for each of a plurality of lines in a predetermined direction in the target bone, and derives a representative value of the representative values of the respective lines as the indicator.

6 . The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor displays the bone part image in which the target bone is emphasized, and the evaluation result.

7 . The image processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor derives a difference value between a centroid of the target bone and a centroid of the bone adjacent to the target bone in a predetermined direction as the relationship with the bone adjacent to the target bone.

8 . An image processing method comprising:

specifying a target bone, which is a target of evaluation, by excluding a fracture and an artificial object in a bone part image in which at least a bone component of a subject is extracted;

deriving an evaluation result indicating a state of a bone of the subject based on the target bone; and

deriving a relationship with a bone adjacent to the target bone, as an indicator indicating the state of the bone, and derives the evaluation result based on the indicator.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores an image processing program causing a computer to execute:

a procedure of specifying a target bone, which is a target of evaluation, by excluding a fracture and an artificial object in a bone part image in which at least a bone component of a subject is extracted;

a procedure of deriving an evaluation result indicating a state of a bone of the subject based on the target bone; and

a procedure of deriving a relationship with a bone adjacent to the target bone, as an indicator indicating the state of the bone, and derives the evaluation result based on the indicator.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 18, 2023
From: TAKAHASHI, TOMOYUKI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-145619 · Sep 13, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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