| 摘要 |
In order to provide an image processing device, region extraction method, and image processing method capable of extracting a target region on the basis of minute variations in a concentration value which exist in localized fashion, and of clearly displaying the extracted target region, an image processing device (100) extracts a blood vessel region (A) from an image and extracts a region in which a CT value is smaller than the average concentration value of the blood vessel region (A) as a soft plaque region (B). For unextracted soft plaque, a pixel pair is set in a difference region between the blood vessel region (A) and the soft plaque region (B), and for each pixel (Pj) of the pixel pair, a determination is made as to whether the pixel value is even smaller than a value slightly smaller than the CT value of the pixel pair. A portion in which there is localized slight variation in pixel values is thereby extracted as soft plaque. |
