Medical Image Processing Method

摘要

The present disclosure provides methods for colorizing and/or standardizing a medical image, comprising, for example, the steps of (i) receiving, in an image processing unit, digital image data obtained by an image capture device, wherein the digital image data includes a medical image; (ii) analyzing the data with the image processing unit to identify a region of interest; (iii) segmenting said region of interest; (iv) obtaining a measure of the pixel intensities in the segmented region of interest; (v) selecting an optimized color spectrum from a plurality of color spectra using the result of the measure of the pixel intensities in the segmented region of interest; (vi) colorizing the digital image data by mapping the selected color spectrum to the region of interest; and (vii) displaying the colorized medical image.

主权项

1. A method of colorizing a medical image, comprising:
receiving, in an image processing unit, digital image data obtained by a digital image capture device, wherein the digital image data comprises at least one medical image; analyzing the digital image data with the image processing unit to identify a region of interest in the medical image represented by the digital image data, wherein the region of interest comprises at least one pixel; segmenting said region of interest from the digital image data to form at least a first image segment and a second image segment, wherein the first image segment comprises the region of interest; measuring at least one pixel intensity value for at least one pixel in the first image segment to obtain at least one measurement value; using the at least one measurement to calculate at least one statistical value; providing a plurality of color spectra, wherein each color spectrum comprises at least one color and relates the at least one color to at least one color value; selecting a color spectrum from the plurality of color spectra, wherein the selected color spectrum comprises at least one color value that corresponds to the calculated statistical value; and mapping the selected color spectrum to the region of interest by applying at least one color of the color spectrum to at least one pixel having a pixel intensity value that corresponds to the related color value of the color spectrum.