THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM

摘要

A three-dimensional ultrasound image generation apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of two-dimensional ultrasound images from each of a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint; a probe position information acquisition unit that acquires, for each imaging, position information of an ultrasound probe; a three-dimensional ultrasound image generation unit that generates three-dimensional ultrasound images; an organ extraction unit that extracts an organ included in the three-dimensional ultrasound images; an image processing unit that extracts an unclear image region from the three-dimensional ultrasound image from which at least the organ is extracted based on position information of the organ and the position information of the ultrasound probe and that performs suppression processing of suppressing unclearness; and an image combination unit that generates a combined three-dimensional ultrasound image by combining the three-dimensional ultrasound images from two viewpoints including the three-dimensional ultrasound image on which the suppression processing is performed.