Image processing apparatus and image processing method

摘要

Based on the position and orientation information of an ultrasonic probe, an image generation unit acquires, from three-dimensional volume data, an image of a slice corresponding to a tomographic image of an object obtained by the ultrasonic probe. An image composition unit composes the image of the slice with the tomographic image to generate and output a composite image. In this composition, a region of the tomographic image is specified as an unclear image sensing region, and the image in the unclear image sensing region is replaced with the image in a region of the image of the slice corresponding to the unclear image sensing region, thereby composing the tomographic image with the image of the slice.

主权项

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and a memory, to which the processor is operatively coupled, storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
acquire a tomographic image of an object obtained by an image sensing unit;acquire three-dimensional volume data of the object;detect an unclear image sensing region on the basis of luminance values within the tomographic image; andgenerate an image by complementing the unclear image sensing region using an image of a slice which is in the three dimensional volume data and which corresponds to the unclear image sensing region,wherein a part of a region of interest is detected from the tomographic image using a method based on edge detection and a region behind the detected part of the region of interest is defined as the unclear image sensing region.