General Electric Company
INFERENCE APPARATUS, MEDICAL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

Abstract:

To provide a technique with which precision of inference can be improved in the case that grayscale images, such as CT images, are handled, there is provided an inference apparatus comprising: an inference section 53 for performing inference using a learned model TM, the learned model TM being generated by learning processing of learning a multi-channel image IMa containing image information on each of three one-channel images (an original image IM1, a histogram-equalized image IM2, and edge-enhanced image IM3), and ground-truth data CD; and a multi-channel image producing section 52 for producing a multi-channel image IMb containing image information on each of three one-channel images (an original image IM10, a histogram-equalized image IM20, and an edge-enhanced image IM30) of a patient, wherein the inference section 53 inputs the multi-channel image IMb to the learned model TM, performs the inference, and outputs an output image IMout as output data.