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Masahito Yamane

Tsuneo Hayashi

Takeshi Uemori

Tomoyuki Hirayama

Hisakazu Shiraki

Ikuo Tsukagoshi

Hiroshi Ichiki

Yasuaki Takahashi

Yuki Sugie

Koji Kashima

Jason Naxin Wang

Kentaro Fukazawa

Kenji Takahasi

Shinji Watanabe

Klaus Zimmermann

Tatsumi Sakaguchi

Kazuki Aisaka

Masaya Takemoto

Yoichi Yagasaki

Takashi Nakamura

Ohji Nakagami

Daisuke Kikuchi

Kenji Ikeda

Takeshi Miyai

Markus H Veltman

Kenta Yamaguchi

Michael Alan Kutner

Tsutomu Inui

Atsushi Asai

Moreover, it is conceivable to support more advanced procedures by connecting a medical imaging device to a server and performing signal processing on the server. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a medical information control system is provided in which an operation server includes a plurality of virtual shared buffers to which a first medical application installed in a first container virtual area and a second medical application installed in a second container virtual area are accessible, and a control application, and the control application controls the first medical application or the second medical application to alternately use a first virtual memory area, a second virtual memory area, and a third virtual memory area for write of the first medical application and read of the second medical application.

Medical information control system, signal processing device, and medical information control method

The present disclosure relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, and an image processing system that can suppress a reduction in resolution of an image that a surgery operator wants to see at a high resolution while responding to an increase in the number of connections of medical equipment that supply images. In the previous stage of a transmission path such as PCIe, images are acquired from a plurality of pieces of medical equipment, a compression method is selected for each type of image, and the image is compressed and output to the transmission path. Therefore, among YCbCr signals, e.g., of a CT image or an X image, an image that does not require CbCr signals is compressed as the Y signal only, and an image that requires a high-resolution image such as an operative field image is transmitted without being compressed. Therefore, it is possible to suppress compression of the band of a transmission path such as PCIe. The present disclosure can be applied to an intra-hospital image processing system.

Reception apparatus, reception method, and image processing system

Provided is a medical observation system that includes a first medical signal processing device including a first signal processing unit that acquires first image data corresponding to a result of image capturing of an affected part by a medical observation device and provides first signal processing to the first image data, and a second medical signal processing device including a second signal processing unit that acquires second image data corresponding to the result of image capturing from the first medical signal processing device through a predetermined network and provides second signal processing to the second image data. The second signal processing unit transmits information related to the second signal processing to the first medical signal processing device. The first signal processing unit controls the first signal processing based on the second signal processing.

Medical observation system, medical signal processing device, and medical signal processing device driving 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 sending-side image converting apparatus sends a transmission image to a network. An image processing server performs image processing on the transmission image and sends the image generated by the image processing to the network. A receiving-side image converting apparatus outputs display images converted from the transmission image and the image generated by the image processing, to a display apparatus. Further, a controlled delay time based on a difference between a delay time in a first transmission path without via the image processing server and a delay time in a second transmission path via the image processing server is obtained on the basis of a characteristic of the display apparatus, and a timing at which the images are output to the display apparatus is controlled. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a medical-use image transmission system.

Medical-use control system, image processing server, image converting apparatus, and control method

[Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. [Solution] There is provided a communication control device including: a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.

Communication control device, communication control method, program, and communication control system

It is desired to provide a technology which is capable of reducing glare to be felt by a user for an output image by an HDR monitor in a case where an image is caused to be displayed at the HDR monitor on the basis of an HDR image. There is provided a medical system including a light source configured to irradiate a subject inside a living organism; an imaging unit configured to image the subject coaxially with an optical axis of the light source; and a control unit configured to control the light source and the imaging unit, in which the control unit performs control so that a signal compliant with high-dynamic range standards is output by adjusting gradation for a first image signal acquired by the imaging unit.

Medical system, medical apparatus, and control method

Provided is a control apparatus including a ratio calculation unit that calculates a first ratio of a bit assignment relating to transmission of a biological image on the basis of image capture conditions and a bit assignment determination unit that determines the bit assignment on the basis of the first ratio. In addition, provided is a control system including an image capture apparatus that captures an image of an object, the control apparatus including the ratio calculation unit that calculates the first ratio on the basis of the image capture conditions relating to the object, the bit assignment determination unit that determines the bit assignment, an image processing unit that performs image processing based on the captured image and the bit assignment and generates the biological image, and an output apparatus that outputs the biological image based on the bit assignment.

Control apparatus, control system, and control method for transmission of a biological image

The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a surgical system, by which a captured image can be displayed with low latency in almost real time. A DMA controllerof a CPUdivides image data, which is input via an IF card, by the number of GPU cards--in a horizontal direction and allocates them. In each of the GPU cards--, the image data is subjected to time division processing in the vertical direction. With this, the use of the plurality of GPU cards--increases the speed of processing associated with display for the image data. High-speed display is realized due to reduction in latency. The present technology is applicable to an endoscopic camera, a surgical microscope, and the like.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and surgical system

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

Provided is an medical information processing apparatus including processing circuitry that, based on surgical situation information concerning surgical characteristics at a time of observing an interior of a living body, selects at least one of a plurality of biological images each having a different wavelength range or at least one of secondary images generated from the plurality of biological images each having a different wavelength range, as a recommended image.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and medical observation system

There is provided a surgical system including a monitoring sensor configured to sense a characteristic of a surgical site within a body, in a sensing region of the surgical site which includes at least a part of a region outside a display field of an endoscope, and circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of a medical abnormality in the region outside the display field of the endoscope based on a result of the sensing by the monitoring sensor, and generate notification information regarding the detected medical abnormality.

Surgical system, information processing device, and method

An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

There is provided an observation device that includes an image shooting unit composed of a first housing and for capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient; and a communication unit composed of a second housing disposed away from the first housing, and for wirelessly transmitting, to an external device, image information on the surgical site the image of which is captured by the image shooting unit.

Observation device and observation system for strengthening stability of communication

[Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. There is provided a communication control device including a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masahito Yamane