US 11,810,659 B2
Medical image processing apparatus, program installable into medical image processing apparatus, and medical image processing method
Yusuke Imasugi, Tokyo (JP); Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Kitakyushu (JP); and Noriaki Miyake, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/227,083.
Application 17/227,083 is a continuation of application No. 15/965,159, filed on Apr. 27, 2018, granted, now 10,984,906.
Application 15/965,159 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2016/081979, filed on Oct. 28, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-213477 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2015; application No. 2015-213478 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2015; and application No. 2015-213479 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0257083 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G09B 23/28 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G09B 23/30 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 30/20 (2018.01) [G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01); G09B 23/286 (2013.01); G09B 23/30 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical image processing apparatus of generating an electronic document used to display a three-dimensional body organ model, the medical image processing apparatus comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to operate as:
an accepting unit that accepts an instruction for generating an electronic document;
a surface shape generation unit that generates surface shape data from medical image data and stores the surface shape data in a storage; and
a control unit that generates the electronic document with the three-dimensional body organ model using the surface shape data generated by the surface shape generation unit, in response to the instruction accepted by the accepting unit,
wherein the control unit determines, upon accepting the instruction, whether or not the surface shape data for the three-dimensional body organ model is stored in the storage,
wherein in the case where it is determined that the surface shape data is stored in the storage, the surface shape generation unit does not generate the surface shape data again, the control unit generates the electronic document with the three-dimensional body organ model using the surface shape data stored in the storage,
wherein in the case where it is determined that the surface shape data is not stored in the storage, the control unit generates the electronic document with the three-dimensional body organ model using the surface shape data after the surface shape generation unit generates the surface shape data, and
wherein the surface shape generation unit converts the medical image data to the surface shape data in accordance with Marching cubes algorithm.