Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Michitaka Sugawara

Mariko Shibata

Keisuke Hashimoto

Shintaro Niwa

A diagnosis assisting apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit and a display circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a first question represented by a question from a patient to a medical doctor. The processing circuit is configured to analyze content of the obtained first question. The processing circuit is configured to convert the first question into a second question having equivalent content and using a different expression, on the basis of a result of the analysis. The display circuit is configured to display the second question.

Diagnosis/treatment assisting apparatus and diagnosis/treatment assisting system

A volume data transmission system for transmitting volume data consisting of voxel data through a communication line includes a projection data generating section, a data selecting section, and a data transmitter section. The projection data generating section generates binary projection data from the volume data in accordance with whether predetermined significant data is included in any of voxel data along a plurality of predetermined directions in a 3-dimensional space. The data selecting section selects only voxel data having significant data corresponding to any of the binary projection data on the basis of the binary projection data. The transmitter section transmits the binary projection data and the selected voxel data.

Growing community of inventors

Utsunomiya, Japan

Michitaka Sugawara