TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTING TUMOR REGIONS FROM NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tumor region extraction program capable of reducing variations in extraction results due to operator skill and the like in image analysis of nuclear medicine image data.SOLUTION: A computer program for analyzing nuclear medicine image data performs steps including; acquiring pixel groups of regions corresponding to bones from a pixel group included in nuclear medicine image data; determining a standard deviation based on pixel values of at least a portion of the acquired pixel groups; and extracting bone tumor pixel groups based on the standard deviation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5