Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

Abstract

The invention relates to an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an image creating unit, a motion-vector calculating unit, a corrected-image creating unit, and a control unit. The image creating unit creates a plurality of ultrasound images in time series; and the motion-vector calculating unit calculates a motion vector of a local region between two successive ultrasound images (a first image and a second image) in time series among the ultrasound images created by the image creating unit. The corrected-image creating unit then creates a corrected image corrected from the second image, based on a component of a scanning line direction of ultrasound in the motion vector calculated by the motion-vector calculating unit. The control unit then performs control so as to cause a certain monitor to display the corrected image created by the corrected-image creating unit.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application is based on and claims priority from prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-081030 filed on March 31, 2010 and prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2011-017988 filed on January 31, 2011, all of which The contents are incorporated by reference in this application. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic device, an image processing device, and an image processing method. Background technique [0004] Conventionally, ultrasonic diagnostic devices are smaller in size than other medical image diagnostic devices such as X-ray diagnostic devices, X-ray CT (Computed Tomography) devices, and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) devices. Devices that can be easily operated close to the body surface, for example, can display in real time (real time) the movement of the subject such as heart beating or fetal movement, and thus play an important role in today's medical c...

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However, generally speaking, when the ultrasonic probe is brought close to the body surface of the subject to observe the living tissue at the lower part of the body surface, the body surface of the subject may be pressed by the movement of the ultrasonic probe and become the object of observation. The movement of biological tissues

That is, in the intrinsic display method of the above-mentioned ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, not only in the diagnosis of the malignancy of the neoplastic lesion but also in the image diagnosis using the ultrasonic image, the visibility of the observed object in the ultrasonic image may also deteriorate. The problem

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