METHOD OF PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PERFORMING THE METHOD

• Main Authors: Oh, Hyun-hwa, Song, Jeong-yong, Lee, Hyun-jung, Lee, Dong-jae, Kim, Se-min
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.08.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

A device and a method for medical image processing are provided. The medical image processing method may include: obtaining a plurality of actual medical images corresponding to a plurality of patients and including lesions; training a deep neural network (DNN), based on the plurality of actual medical images, to obtain a first neural network for predicting a variation in a lesion over time, the lesion being included in a first medical image of the plurality of actual medical images, wherein the first medical image is obtained at a first time point; and obtaining, via the first neural network, a second medical image representing a state of the lesion at a second time point different from the first time point.