Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kensuke Shinoda

Shuhei Nitta

Hiroshi Takai

Yuichi Yamashita

Nobuyuki Konuma

Kazuya Okamoto

Tomoyuki Takeguchi

Satoshi Wakai

Hitoshi Kanazawa

Kazuto Nakabayashi

Takuya Fujimaki

Shigehide Kuhara

Tomohiro Kawasaki

Yasuo Sakurai

Yurika Ogawa

Syuhei Takemoto

Ye Liu

Shinya Ozawa

Takamasa Sugiura

Masahito Nambu

Jin Xu

Hitoshi Yamagata

Yasunori Taguchi

Yoshimori Kassai

Satoshi Sugiura

Bing Li

Shigeharu Ohyu

Yoshihiro Ikeda

Sho Kawajiri

Lijun Zhang

Motohiro Miura

Takao Kasugai

Hideaki Kutsuna

Masaaki Yamanaka

Isao Tatebayashi

Kazuya Tanoue

Kiyomi Ooshima

Kyoko Sato

Bin Fu

Tetsuya Yokota

Megumu Fujiwara

Mitsuhiro Bekku

Yoshiteru Watanabe

Jianchun Zhao

Takahiro Ohmure

Qiuying Dong

Pengfei Liu

Satoshi Okuyama

Hideaki Kobayashi

Hidetaka Konta

Kyohei Yamamori

Jinbiao Zhang

Yutaka Hoshiyama

Takayuki Kojima

Takumi Kaneko

Tomohisa Fukunaga

Xiaofei Sun

Yoshiharu Ohiwa

Yuto Ono

Shinya Sato

Gaku Kaneda

Kiyomi Oshima

A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates noise intensity from first data acquired during a first scan. The processing circuitry calculates a denoising intensity used for a denoising process based on the noise intensity and the difference between an imaging condition for the first scan and an imaging condition for a second scan, the denoising process being applied to second data obtained by the second scan.

Medical information processing apparatus and medical information processing method

A modality controlling apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display and a processing circuitry. The display is configured to display an input object for inputting an instruction for controlling a first modality and a status object indicating a status related to a second modality. The processing circuitry is configured to display the input object in a first section of the display and to display the status object in a second section of the display which is a section smaller than the first section.

Modality controlling apparatus and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium storing therein display controlling program

An imaging assisting apparatus according to an embodiment is configured to assist imaging of a medical image diagnosis apparatus that performs a series of medical examinations including a plurality of scan protocols, the imaging assisting apparatus including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain data acquired according to one or more already-executed scan protocols among the plurality of scan protocols. The processing circuit is configured to perform one of the following when a disease or a region suspected of a disease is extracted from the data: controlling a scan protocol which is among the plurality of scan protocols and later than the already-executed scan protocols; and generating reference information related to controlling a scan protocol which is among the plurality of scan protocols and later than the already-executed scan protocols.

Imaging assisting apparatus and storage medium storing therein imaging assisting computer program

An image generating apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to successively generate Magnetic Resonance (MR) images in a plurality of temporal phases by using a first reconstruction method. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a first temporal phase before MR images in all the temporal phases during a predetermined time period are generated. The processing circuitry is configured to generate an MR image in the first temporal phase determined by the determining unit, by using a second reconstruction method having a larger processing load than the first reconstruction method.

Image generating apparatus, image generating method and storage medium

According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.

Medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, and storage medium

A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.

Medical information processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and medical information processing method

An excitation region setting method according to an embodiment includes: receiving a designation of a first region from a user, the first region being designated in a distortion-corrected image that is a magnetic resonance image in which an effect of a distortion of a magnetic field has been corrected; calculating an actual excitation region where a subject is to be excited, based on the designated first region and the effect of the distortion of the magnetic field; and correcting imaging conditions including at least one of an orientation of a slice plane that defines the actual excitation region, or a frequency of a high-frequency magnetic field applied to the subject, in such a manner that the calculated actual excitation region becomes closer to an ideal excitation region represented as the first region.

Excitation region setting method and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates, from a first image influenced by a magnetic field distortion, a second image in which the influence of the distortion is corrected, receives a first area setting in the second image and calculates, by a method of the calculation depending on an imaging purpose, an excitation area in the imaging based on the first area.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to acquire layout information which defines a layout of cross-sectional images on a localizer screen, to detect cross-sectional positions of the cross-sectional images from MR data, and to generate the localizer screen according to the layout information, the localizer screen including all or a part of the plurality of cross-sectional images generated on the basis of the plurality of cross-sectional positions.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and medical image processing method

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates a plurality of cross-sectional images for setting a sectional position to be collected in main imaging based on a characteristic portion of a target detected in three-dimensional data. The processing circuitry lists the cross-sectional images on a display and superimposes a mark corresponding to the characteristic portion on at least one of the cross-sectional images. The processing circuitry receives a setting operation to determine the sectional position. The processing circuitry causes, when the mark is selected in the setting operation, a cross-sectional image to be emphasized a sectional position of which is defined using the characteristic portion corresponding to the mark among the listed cross-sectional images. The processing circuitry performs main imaging based on the sectional position after the setting operation.

A medical image processing apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to accept an operation for a region of interest (ROI) GUI and a guide GUI on a screen on which a medical image is displayed, the ROI GUI being for setting a ROI on the medical image, the guide GUI being for guiding a setting of the ROI on the medical image. The processing circuitry is configured to decide whether to move the ROI GUI and the guide GUI in a manner interlocked with each other or not according to a preset condition, when a turning operation or a sliding operation for any one of the ROI GUI and the guide GUI is accepted.

Medical image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and medical image processing method

A stage determination support system according to an embodiment includes devices. The storage device stores a plurality of kinds of functional images of a subject. The first determination device determines a degree of each of a plurality of kinds of analysis indices relating to a disease, based on at least the functional images among functional images and the morphological images. The second determination device determines, based on each of determination results and a predetermined stage determination rule, a stage corresponding to the determination result with respect to each of the analysis indices. The calculation device calculates, with respect to each of the stages, a value indicative of a possibility that the disease corresponds to the stage, based on each of determination results.

Stage determination support system

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Kensuke Shinoda