Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Kentaro Fukazawa

Yukihiro Nakamura

Kenji Tanaka

Hisakazu Shiraki

Kazumasa Tanaka

Kyosuke Yoshida

Yoshihiro Takahashi

Takeshi Uemori

Daisuke Kikuchi

Takami Mizukura

Hiroshi Ichiki

Masahito Yamane

Takeshi Miyai

Yuki Sugie

Kenta Yamaguchi

Kenji Takahasi

Tetsujiro Kondo

Yoshinori Takagi

Hideki Mori

Tsuneo Hayashi

Takuo Morimura

Daisuke Tsuru

Seiichi Inomata

Hirosuke Nagano

Yuya Aoki

Yasuhiko Suga

Shinobu Yamada

Shunsuke Harasaki

Minori Takahashi

Takashi Nakamura

Seiji Wada

Takashi Yamaguchi

Koji Kashima

Kenji Ikeda

Takanori Fukazawa

Tadashi Morishige

Kazuki Ikeshita

To generate a medical image with high visibility in fluorescence observation. A medical image generation apparatus () according to the present application includes an acquisition unit (), a calculation unit (), and a generation unit (). An acquisition unit () acquires a first medical image captured with fluorescence of a predetermined wavelength and a second medical image captured with fluorescence of a wavelength different from the predetermined wavelength. A calculation unit () calculates a degree of scattering, indicating a degree of blurring of fluorescence of a living body, included in the first medical image and the second medical image acquired by the acquisition unit (). A generation unit () generates an output image on the basis of at least one of the degrees of scattering calculated by the calculation unit ().

Medical image generation apparatus, medical image generation method, and medical image generation program

Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes a feature detecting unit that detects a feature of first image data, where the first image data is obtained by capturing an image of a blood vessel by IndoCyanine Green (ICG) fluorescence imaging. The image processing apparatus further includes an enhancement processing unit that controls a degree of an enhancement process performed on the first image data, on the basis of the feature.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system for improving visibility of indocyanine green image

A medical system includes a light source that irradiates an imaging target with light, an imaging device that images reflected light from the imaging target irradiated with the light, and a noise reduction processing means that acquires a plurality of images captured by the imaging device and performs noise reduction processing on one image of interest out of a plurality of the images. The noise reduction processing means uses an image N (N is an integer not smaller than 2) frames before the image of interest as a reference image.

Medical system, information processing device, and information processing method

An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an endoscope system capable of providing an optimal video image to an operator in accordance with surgical scenes are provided. A processing mode determination unit determines, in accordance with surgical scenes, a processing mode for an in-vivo image captured by an imaging apparatus including an imaging element arranged so as to enable pixel shift processing, and an image combining unit processes an image output from the imaging apparatus, in accordance with the processing mode. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an endoscope system for imaging a living body with an endoscope.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and endoscope system for processing images based on surgical scenes

A control device includes an image quality control unit configured to control image quality of an image for display on a basis of optical axis angle information with reference to a scope axis of an endoscope and an image signal acquired by an image sensor. The optical axis angle information is information detected by information obtained by acquiring light source angle information controlled by an imaging device.

Control device, endoscopic imaging device, control method, program, and endoscopic system

In a case where a plurality of imaging apparatuses is used for a surgery, the appearance is regulated between images captured by the respective imaging apparatuses. According to the present disclosure, a medical system is provided, the medical system including a plurality of surgical imaging apparatuses and a control unit to which each of the surgical imaging apparatuses is connected, the control unit including a signal processing unit that links images captured by the respective surgical imaging apparatuses. With this configuration, in a case where a plurality of imaging apparatuses is arranged for a surgery, it becomes possible to regulate the appearance between images captured by the respective imaging apparatuses.

Medical system and control unit

[Problem] To predict a remaining time during which a fluorescence image is observable. [Solution] An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a remaining time estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of a luminance limit value for observation of a fluorescence image and a change in luminance of a fluorescence image, a remaining time until the luminance of the fluorescence image reaches the luminance limit value. This configuration enables the time at which the luminance of a fluorescence image reaches the luminance limit value to be estimated according to a change in luminance of the fluorescence image, and it is possible to predict a remaining time during which a fluorescence image is observable.

Information processing device, information processing method, and fluorescence image capturing system

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display on the basis of a detection value indicating a focus state of a lens acquired from a stereoscopic imaging unit, and a captured image signal for a left eye and a captured image signal for a right eye acquired from the imaging unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an assistance system, and an information processing method that enable suitable assistance to be performed on a surgeon. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of a first image obtained by picking up an image of a surgical part including an affected part and metadata of a situation obtained from past surgery or examination, a parameter of assistance performed with respect to the situation, which is made to correspond to the metadata.

Information processing apparatus, assistance system, and information processing method

A medical system including a medical imaging device, and circuitry that obtains a plurality of first images each having a different phase from the medical imaging device, combines each of the plurality of first images a plurality of times to generate a plurality of second images, wherein each time of the plurality of times that the plurality of first images are combined, a different candidate process is used in the combining, and selects one image from the plurality of second images as an output image for display, the selected one image being higher quality than any one of the plurality of first images.

Surgery control apparatus, surgery control method, program, and surgery system

An endoscopic system including an endoscope device that outputs image data, an illumination device that illuminates a body of a patient, and circuitry that obtains, from the image data, at least two frames each captured with a different illumination state, generate, from at least two obtained frames, a composite image that has a reduced specular reflection light component with respect to at least one of the obtained frames, and generate a video signal including the composite image.

Endoscopic system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to perform correction processing on the surgical site image as a captured surgical site on the basis of information related to display of a display apparatus that displays the surgical site image. The image processing apparatus is included in a surgical system that displays the surgical site image photographed by an endoscope on a monitor.

Correction processing of a surgical site image

An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed content frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

[Object] To improve an sn ratio and to make the image quality good in addition to the expanding of the dynamic range of an image. [Solution] An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a light amount determining section that determines, on a basis of a pixel value of each pixel of an imaged image, on a basis of a pixel value of each pixel of an imaged image, a light amount of the imaged image; and an exposure ratio determining section that determines a ratio of an exposure amount of a long time exposure pixel to an exposure amount of a short time exposure pixel on a basis of a ratio of pixels the pixel value of each of which is saturated, among pixels included in a region of the imaged image.

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Kentaro Fukazawa