Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Unitika Ltd.

Fujirebio Inc.

Fujita Health University

Iwate Medical University

Masahiro Ozaki

Manabu Hiraoka

Yusuke Toki

Naoki Sugihara

Yasuo Nobuta

Kazumasa Arakita

Kousuke Sakaue

Yoshihiro Ikeda

Takeo Nabatame

Longxun Piao

Masao Yamahana

Shinya Sugiyama

Hiroyuki Onuki

Ichiro Yamagishi

Masakuni Fujise

Hisahiro Shinohara

Makoto Hayashibara

Tatsuya Ban

Daiichi Watanabe

Yoshihiko Aochi

Tetsuro Hada

Kimiko Sunami

Hiroshi Nakajima

Yasuko Fujisawa

Tatsuya Kimoto

Satoshi Wakai

Takashi Ichihara

Hitoshi Kanazawa

Tatsuo Maeda

Atsuko Sugiyama

Shigeo Kaminaga

Keisuke Hashimoto

Yusuke Kano

Yasuo Sakurai

Kazuki Utsunomiya

Toshihiro Rifu

Takashi Masuzawa

Akira Iwasa

Kei Mori

Megumu Fujiwara

Kazumasa Noro

Tatsuo Katayama

Kyohei Yamamori

Mayumi Hayashi

Kazuhisa Murakami

Kenta Muranaka

Itsuko Iwata

Fujimaro Ishida

Masatoshi Kanou

Seiko Yoshimura

Miwako Hagiuda

Yoshihiro Nishikawa

Kunihiro Yoshioka

Ryoichi Tanaka

According to one embodiment, a medical information system comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry collects social behavior information about a measurement target person. The processing circuitry identifies a social relationship between the measurement target person and others, and a behavior pattern of the measurement target person, by using the collected social behavior. The processing circuitry quantitatively measures a sociality item of the measurement target person by using the identified social relationship and the identified behavior pattern.

Medical information system, information processing terminal, medical information server and medical information providing method

A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, based on a first area that is an area to which radiation is emitted and a second area that is an area affected by the radiation emitted, a cross-section that satisfies a certain condition and that passes through two points, the first area and the second area being specified by volume data and the two points being a first point included in the first area and a second point included in the second area. The processing circuitry causes a display to present an image of the cross-section.

Medical image processing apparatus

A medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires information concerning a similar patient similar to a designated patient. The processing circuitry acquires a value representing a first treatment effect and a value representing a first side-effect based on the acquired information concerning the similar patient. The processing circuitry generates a map image in which a mark representing the similar patient is arranged based on the value representing the first treatment effect and the value representing the first side-effect.

Medical information processing apparatus

A medical information processing system according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to identify the position of a tissue from first medical image data represented by an image of a target site acquired before the tissue in the target site was collected and to obtain an image feature value of the tissue. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain an examination result of a pathological examination performed on the tissue. The processing circuitry is configured to bring the image feature value of the tissue into association with the examination result of the pathological examination.

Medical information processing system and medical information processing apparatus

A method and apparatus is provided for medical image processing. The processing of the medical image extracting a living valve image by analyzing a 3D image of an anatomical organ of a subject, specifying a distribution of an amount of calcium in the living valve image from CT pixel values in the living valve image, and specifying a distribution of difficulty levels of implanting an artificial valve to the anatomical organ based on a comparison between the amount of calcium and a predetermined value.

Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method

A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a plurality of medical image groups in which respective motions of a part inside a subject have been photographed in time series and executes certain processing on the acquired medical image groups. The processing circuitry analyzes the motions in the respective medical image groups. The processing circuitry generates a medical image in which the motions in the respective medical image groups substantially match with each other based on the analyzed motions.

Medical image processing apparatus and method for medical image processing

According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a rigid region from predetermined medical image data among a plurality of items of medical image data. Further, between first medical image data and second medical image data among the plurality of items of medical image data, the processing circuitry performs rigid registration on the rigid region and performs non-rigid registration on a region other than the rigid region.

According to on embodiment, a photon counting CT apparatus includes a hybrid detector and processing circuitry. The hybrid detector includes CT detectors and PCCT detectors. The CT detectors output integral signals concerning the detected X-rays. The PCCT detectors output a count signal for each of a plurality of energy bands concerning the detected X-rays. The processing circuitry estimate a count signal concerning an estimation target CT detector of the CT detectors based on an integral signal output from the estimation target CT detector and a count signal output from the PCCT detector. And the processing circuitry reconstruct an image based on the estimated count signal and the count signal.

Photon counting CT apparatus

According to an embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a calculation unit, and a selection unit. The extraction unit extracts an image region having an image element value larger than a predetermined value from a first image of at least one time phase and second images of a plurality of time phases. The calculation unit calculates a feature quantity that fluctuates in accordance with motion of the image region for the first image of at least the one time phase and the second images of the time phases. The selection unit selects the first image and the second image having similar image features of the image region based on the feature quantity from among the first image of at least the one time phase and the second images of the time phases.

An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit, a correcting unit, and a perfusion image creating unit. The acquiring unit obtains a pixel value of a myocardium tissue and an arterial blood before a contrast agent injected in a second contrast examination arrives at a cardiac of a subject when myocardium perfusion data is created, by performing the second contrast examination that captures a second medical image group including the cardiac of the subject who is given an injection of a contrast agent again after a first contrast examination that captures a first medical image group. The correcting unit corrects contrast agent concentrations of an arterial blood and a myocardium tissue in the second medical image group using acquired each pixel value. The perfusion image creating unit computes the myocardium perfusion data in the second contrast examination based on the corrected contrast agent concentrations.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A computer aided diagnostic system according to the invention is characterized in that first sick portion detecting means for detecting a sick portion candidate based upon an image acquired by a first modality, second sick portion detecting means for detecting a sick portion candidate based upon an image related to the same region of interest of the same subject and acquired by a second modality different from the modality, detection result synthesizing means for comparing the results of detection by the first and second sick portion detecting means and correspondence displaying means for relating the position of the sick portion candidate detected by the first sick portion detecting means on an image analyzed by the second sick portion detecting means and displaying it and for relating the position of the sick portion candidate detected by the second sick portion detecting means on an image analyzed by the first sick portion detecting means and displaying it are provided. According to the above-mentioned configuration, the computer aided diagnostic system that enables a double check comparing images acquired by plural apparatuses can be provided.

Computer-aided diagnostic apparatus

A shared object is newly created in a unified format with respect to past medical information that is effective in a photographing step or a report creating step. Since the shared object can include a position determination image, unique object information, body coordinates information, a photographing condition, a image creating condition, and key image information, it is possible to automatically set the same photographing condition, photographing range, a tomographic position to be photographed, and image creating condition as those in a past test by using the information described above.

Medical image diagnostic apparatus, picture archiving communication system server, image reference apparatus, and medical image diagnostic system

An X-ray computed tomographic apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotating mechanism unit which continuously rotates the X-ray tube around a subject to be examined, together with the X-ray detector, a data storage unit which stores projection data corresponding to an output from the X-ray detector in association with the angles of the X-ray tube at the time of data acquisition, a reconstruction processing unit which reconstructs a plurality of images on the basis of a plurality of projection data sets stored in the data storage unit, the plurality of projection data sets corresponding to the same range from a first view angle to a second view angle, and a display unit which displays the plurality of reconstructed images.

X-ray computer tomographic apparatus, medical imaging apparatus, and medical image display apparatus

A concentrated irradiation type radiotherapy apparatus comprises a radiation source, a multi-channeled radiation detector, a rotating mechanism, an image reconstruction unit, a multi-leaf collimator disposed between the radiation source and the subject to trim the radioactive rays in arbitrary shapes and including a plurality of first leaves and a plurality of second leaves each disposed to be individually movable forwards/backwards and each having a strip shape and in which types of the first leaves are different from those of the second leaves.

Concentrated irradiation type radiotherapy apparatus

An X-ray CT (computed tomography) apparatus is disclosed. The X-ray CT apparatus include an X-ray supply unit performing low-dose X-ray scanning and high-dose X-ray scanning for a patient in which a contrast medium has been injected. The collected X-ray projection data are reconstructed to generate image data for low-dose X-ray scanning and high-dose X-ray scanning. In the low-dose X-ray scanning that proceed the high-dose X-ray scanning, plural images are obtained in succession, in which ROIs (regions of interest) are set in given positions. A CT value calculating unit calculates the CT values in the ROIs in succession, and the timing at which the high-dose X-ray scanning is started is determined on the basis of the changes of CT values with time. And blood-flow information is calculated by using the image data obtained with low-dose X-ray scanning and high-dose X-ray scanning.

X-ray CT apparatus and method of calculating blood-flow information

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Otawara, Japan

Masahiro Ozaki