Dynamic analysis system

Abstract

A dynamic analysis system includes a diagnostic console which calculates at least one index value representing variation in a target portion of a human body from at least one dynamic image acquired by performing radiographic imaging to a subject containing the target portion, and evaluates flexibility of the target portion based on the calculated index value.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A dynamic analysis system comprising:
 a diagnostic console which calculates at least one index value representing variation in a target portion of a human body from at least one dynamic image acquired by performing radiographic imaging to a subject containing the target portion, and evaluates flexibility of the target portion based on the calculated index value,   wherein the dynamic image is a breast dynamic image, the target portion is a lung field, and the diagnostic console calculates the index value representing variation in the lung field from the breast dynamic image, and evaluates the flexibility of the lung field based on the calculated index value representing the variation in the lung field,   wherein the diagnostic console calculates from the dynamic image, as the index value representing the variation in the lung field, at least one of: a variation in density of a lung field region, a movement of a diaphragm, a movement of a periphery of a thorax, a rate of variation in density of the lung field region, a rate of movement of the diaphragm, and a rate of movement of the periphery of the thorax.   wherein the diagnostic console evaluates the lung field more flexible for the larger variation in density of the lung field region, the larger movement of the diaphragm, or the larger movement of the periphery of the thorax.   
     
     
         2 . The dynamic analysis system of  claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic console extracts a signal of a certain temporal frequency component from the dynamic image, and calculates the variation in density of the lung field region and/or the rate of variation in density of the lung field region from the dynamic image from which the certain temporal frequency component is extracted. 
     
     
         3 . The dynamic analysis system of  claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic console evaluates the lung field more flexible for the higher rate of variation in density of the lung field region, the higher rate of movement of the diaphragm, or the higher rate of movement of the periphery of the thorax. 
     
     
         4 . The dynamic analysis system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a storage device which stores a reference value of the index value in association with one or more of: height; weight; age; sex; respiratory strategy; volume of the lung field; area of the lung field; and respiratory rate, wherein
 the diagnostic console evaluates the flexibility of the lung field based on comparison of the calculated index value with the reference value stored in the storage device, the reference value being associated with a test subject who becomes the subject of the dynamic image. 
   
     
     
         5 . The dynamic analysis system of  claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic console calculates from at least two regions set in a lung field region in the dynamic image, as further index values, a variation in density in each of the regions or a rate of variation in density in each of the regions, and evaluates the flexibility of the lung field based on comparison between the index values calculated from the at least two regions. 
     
     
         6 . The dynamic analysis system of  claim 1 , wherein the diagnostic console calculates the index values each representing variation in the lung from the respective dynamic images acquired by imaging the identical subject at different times, and evaluates the flexibility of the lung field based on comparison between the calculated index values.