| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image processing apparatus and a method for identifying a region of interest with time in a medical image processing apparatus which are easy to operate and achieve a shorter processing time even when segmentation is performed on the basis of large volume of data. <P>SOLUTION: In volumes containing acquired with time three-dimensional image information of a subject, a point in a region of interest within an image acquired at a predetermined time is designated as a seed point. The method comprises a region of interest identifying step for identifying a region of interest in an organ containing the designated point at this point of time by carrying out segmentation, a region of interest enlarging step for generating a region by enlarging the region of interest identified by the region of interest identifying step, and a region of interest detecting step for setting the region enlarged by the region of interest enlarging step in a volume at a next point of time and for detecting the region of interest at the next point of time in the same. By repeating the region of interest growing step and the region of interest detecting step, the of the region of interest changing with time are identified. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
