Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Railway Technical Research Institute

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Oiles Corporation

Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Takashi Ida

Hidenori Takeshima

Yasunori Taguchi

Toshimitsu Kaneko

Shuhei Nitta

Kenzo Isogawa

Osamu Hori

Tomoyuki Takeguchi

Toshiyuki Ono

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Takeshi Mita

Yoichi Takada

Yoshiyuki Imanaka

Ichiro Saito

Yoichi Taneya

Muga Mochizuki

Satoshi Kawata

Masao Kato

Mikio Sanada

Noribumi Koitabashi

Sadayuki Sugama

Shinichi Hakamada

Koji Yamamoto

Shigehide Kuhara

Takuma Yamamoto

Yoshihiro Ohmori

Koichi Masukura

Yoshinori Misumi

Daisaku Ide

Masahiro Sekine

Yukinobu Sakata

Takumi Kaneko

Kenichi Shimoyama

Fumiaki Fujioka

Hajime Wakui

Mai Murashima

Akitoshi Yamada

Tsutomu Abe

Hidehiko Kanda

Teruo Ozaki

Takuya Sakaguchi

Tetsuya Suwa

Nao Mishima

Masaya Uetsuki

Taichiro Shiodera

Fumihiro Gotoh

Takashi Saito

Yasuko Fujisawa

Minoru Nozawa

Yasushi Iijima

Hiroyuki Murayama

Hirofumi Ichinose

Manabu Tanaka

Shingo Nagata

Naohito Asai

Hirofumi Okuhara

Hideki Takayama

Koichi Osumi

Masako Udagawa

Kouhei Nakagawa

Tsuyoshi Furuse

Susumu Kubota

Masashi Tsujimura

Yoshihisa Yamashita

Hajime Kaneko

Ikuo Shimoda

Mamoru Matsuo

Noriyasu Asaki

Tomoya Okazaki

Yusuke Moriuchi

Hideaki Ikeda

Itaru Tsuji

Souichi Nagai

Masao Mori

Yuko Takada

Takamasa Sugiura

Tsutomu Tagata

Seiichi Tottori

Hiromi Inoue

Shizuo Kimura

Masanori Kosugi

Shuichi Nagata

Tadatomo Watanabe

Saori Asaka

Shin-Ichi Hakamada

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes an MRI system and a processing circuitry. The MRI system includes a receiving coil to receive a magnetic resonance signal. The processing circuitry is configured to generate an image based on the magnetic resonance signal, the image including a plurality of pixels; calculate a feature value corresponding to a signal value of the pixel; correct the feature values based on a sensitivity of the receiving coil; and reduce noise in the image based on distribution of the corrected feature values.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus acquires first imaging data of a three-dimensional image including a heart, having a plurality of two-dimensional first imaging area data superimposed one on top of another in parallel, and having a resolution at least in one direction different from a resolution in two other directions. A first axis is detected expressed in three dimensions relating to the heart from the three-dimensional first imaging data. A first vector is calculated passing through the first axis and having at least a predetermined resolution. First image data is generated on a plane passing through the first axis and the first vector from the first imaging data and a second axis is detected relating to the heart from the first image data, the second axis being a higher precision axis.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method

According to an embodiment, a lens device includes a filter, an entire area of which transmits light of a common color. The filter includes a first filter region and a second filter region. The first filter region transmits light that is a first combination of colors out of colors of light to be received by an image sensor. The second filter region transmits light that is a second combination of colors of the colors of the light to be received by the image sensor. The first and second combinations of colors each include the common color.

Lens device and image capturing device for acquiring distance information at high accuracy

According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry stores a plurality of images acquired by transmitting ultrasonic waves in different scanning parameters to a target region. The processing circuitry separates a pixel value of a pixel in the images into at least two components. The processing circuitry forms a compound image concerning to the images by using at least one of the components.

Medical image processing apparatus, a medical image processing method and a medical diagnosis apparatus

A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller. The controller generates a plurality of candidates for a first cross-sectional image from three-dimensional image data obtained by taking images of a heart. The controller generates, from the three-dimensional image data, one or more second cross-sectional images each of which intersects the candidates for the first cross-sectional image. The controller displays in parallel on a display, the candidates for the first cross-sectional image, as well as the second cross-sectional images on each of which information is superimposed. The information indicates positional relationships between the candidates for the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image.

Medical image diagnosis apparatus and image display apparatus

An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate, from three-dimensional medical image data, a first cross-sectional image and a second cross-sectional image intersecting the first cross-sectional image and is configured to change display locations of the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image on a display, in conjunction with a change in an intersecting location of the first and the second cross-sectional images.

Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and image processing method

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit, a detecting unit, a deriving unit, and an imaging controller. The acquiring unit acquires three-dimensional image data including a target organ. The detecting unit detects an upper end position and a lower end position of the target organ in the three-dimensional image data. The deriving unit derives an imaging range of subsequent imaging performed after acquisition of the three-dimensional image data based on the upper end position and the lower end position of the target organ. The imaging controller controls performance of the subsequent imaging in accordance with the imaging range.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a specifying unit and a deriving unit. The specifying unit specifies a fluid region in a plurality of magnetic resonance images that are acquired by applying a labeling pulse to a label region and that are mutually related. The deriving unit derives an index indicating dynamics of a fluid on the basis of the specified fluid region.

Image processing of flowing fluids within imaged atonomical structure

According to one embodiment, a MRI apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a reference section information calculating unit, a positioning unit and an imaging unit. The acquisition unit acquires frames of section image data including a heart from an object with use of magnetic resonance. The reference section information calculating unit calculates spatial positional information of a reference section of the heart based on the frames of the section image data. The positioning unit displays a reference section image of the heart on a display unit and performs positioning of an imaging part for imaging through the displayed reference section image of the heart. The reference section image is calculated from the frames of the section image data based on the positional information of the reference section. The imaging unit images the imaging part set by the positioning.

According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and an image processing unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain depth information for each position in an image. The image processing unit is configured to switch between a first sharpening process and a second sharpening process in accordance with whether the image contains a predetermined area. The first sharpening process performs non-uniform sharpening on the image on the basis of the depth information; and the second sharpening process performs uniform sharpening on the image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program product

According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a generator and a processor. The generator is configured to generate, from a plurality of unit images in which points on an object are imaged by an imaging unit at different positions according to distances between the imaging unit and the positions of the points on the object, a refocused image focused at a predetermined distance. The processor is configured to perform blurring processing on each pixel of the refocused image according to an intensity corresponding to a focusing degree of the pixel of the refocused image.

Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program product

A medical image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display unit, a generating unit, and a display controlling unit. The display unit three-dimensionally displays a group of disparity images generated from three-dimensional medical image data. The generating unit determines a display position of the group of disparity images to be three-dimensionally displayed on the display unit in terms of a depth direction with respect to a display surface of the display unit and generates the group of disparity images from the three-dimensional medical image data so as to realize the determined display position. The display controlling unit three-dimensionally displays the group of disparity images and two-dimensionally displays a medical image different from the group of disparity images, on the display unit.

Medical image display apparatus and X-ray diagnosis apparatus

[Object] The invention is intended to provide a medical image processing apparatus in which improvement of accuracy of boundary detection of a heart is achieved. [Solving Means] A medical image processing apparatus acquires volume data of a heat, detects a three-dimensional left ventricle coordinate system composed of three axes including at least a left ventricle long axis of the heart from the volume data; uses a boundary model expressed in the left ventricle coordinate system and detects a left ventricle boundary from the volume data, and displays a cross-sectional image orthogonal to at least one axis of the three axes of the left ventricle coordinate system together with the detected left ventricle boundary on the cross-sectional image.

Medical image processing apparatus and method thereof

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Nobuyuki Matsumoto