ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve visibility of an observation target on an ultrasound image.

SOLUTION: An image creating unit 15a creates a plurality of ultrasound images in time series, and a motion-vector calculating unit 15b calculates a motion vector of a monitoring ROI between two successive ultrasound images in time series among the plurality of ultrasound images created by the image creating unit 15a. A corrected-image creating unit 15c then creates a corrected image that is corrected from an ultrasound image created at the latter time among two ultrasound images on the basis of a component of a scanning line direction of ultrasound in the motion vector calculated by the motion-vector calculating unit 15b. A control unit 17 then performs control so as to display the corrected image created by the corrected-image creating unit 15c on a monitor 2.

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