摘要:
A control unit (116) resets a time stamp value whenever a pulsation is detected. In accordance with an electric signal from an ultrasonic search unit (101) and a send/receive unit (102), the image generating unit (110) generates ultrasound image data, attaches a time stamp to the generated image data, and places it into a data storing unit (112). A contour extracting unit (113) extracts a contour within the image data stored in the data storing unit (112), generates contour data, and attaches the same time stamp as the stamp attached to the image data to the contour data. An interpolated data generating unit (114) interpolates between the contour data in accordance with the attached time stamp to generate contour data corresponding to times at which sampling was not performed. A volume calculating unit (115) calculates a left ventricular volume (LVV) of a heart from the interpolated contour data according to the Modified Simpson method.
摘要:
An image compression apparatus for outputting compressed image information that is suited to progressive image reproduction where completely lossless reproduction is possible without having to use large amounts of compressed image information. A decoding apparatus decodes the compressed image information and performs reproduction. The image compression apparatus performs image compression with a first segmentation for a first plane set that includes at one bit plane in block image information in the original image information. As a result, first region information composed of segmentation information showing a first segmentation result and luminance information is produced. The image compression apparatus also performs image compression with a second segmentation for a second plane set that includes at least one bit plane adjacent to the first plane set. Here, the first segmentation result is used as a standard. As a result, second region information composed of segmentation information and luminance information is produced. Compressed image information is then generated and outputted based on the first and second region information.