Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing device and method to identify disease in an ocular fundus image
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Application No.: US15307887Application Date: 2015-05-01
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Publication No.: US10111582B2Publication Date: 2018-10-30
- Inventor: Toshiaki Nakagawa
- Applicant: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: KOWA COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Adams & Wilks
- Priority: JP2014-095299 20140502
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/063054 WO 20150501
- International Announcement: WO2015/167005 WO 20151105
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A61B3/00 ; A61B3/10 ; A61B3/12 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
An image processing device comprises an enhancement processing unit that enhances a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image. A region-of-interest setting unit sets a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest, and a feature value extracting unit extracts a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest. A disease determining unit makes disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value, and a mapping unit maps, in the ocular fundus tomographic image, a site of the ocular fundus that is determined to have a disease. An image processing method comprises enhancing a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image; setting a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest; extracting a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest; and making disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170049314A1 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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