Konica Minolta, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.

Institute of National Colleges of Technology

Osamu Toyama

Koichi Fujiwara

Hiroshi Yamato

Kenta Shimamura

Eiro Fujii

Shintaro Muraoka

Sho Noji

Shinichi Horita

Shuji Ichitani

Toshio Norita

Koichi Kamon

Takashi Kondo

Koji Fujiwara

Koji Yamamoto

Sumiya Nagatsuka

Michitaka Honda

Yoshihisa Abe

Satoshi Yokota

Hironori Sumitomo

Yuta Yamanoi

Yusuke Mimura

Shigeaki Tochimoto

Norimasa Kubota

Yuzuru Tanaka

Masaaki Chigasaki

Tomasz Kowalczyk

An optical measuring device comprises: a lens to form an image with reflected light from a measuring object; an image sensor to receive the reflected light that has passed through the lens and generate an image representing the measuring object; a driver to drive a drive object, the drive object being at least one of the lens and the image sensor; and a controller to control the optical measuring device. The controller acquires, from the image sensor, a plurality of images generated by the image sensor successively imaging the measuring object while the driver is driving the drive object in accordance with a predetermined driving pattern, and outputs the plurality of images.

Optical measuring device, image generating method, and image generating program

An image generating apparatus includes: a diagnosis image generating section that generates, as a diagnosis image for every first time interval, at least one of a moving image in which a predetermined part of a human body or an animal is photographed and temporally continuous images based on the moving image; an image target setting section that acquires, for the diagnosis image, a first image at a predetermined time and a second image for every second time interval longer than the first time interval from the predetermined time; a pixel color converting portion that converts, of pixels of the first image and the second image, colors of pixels satisfying a predetermined condition to be distinguishable; and a display image generating section that generates an image for display using the first image and the second image whose colors of the pixels have been converted by the pixel color converting portion.

Image generation device that acquires images based on a periodic variation of an anatomical structure

An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes an image analysis unit that performs image analysis processing on a plurality of frame images constituting a base dynamic image to obtain an overall analysis value, a statistical analysis unit that performs statistical analysis processing on a diagnostic region using the overall analysis value to obtain a first analysis value, a reference statistical value generating unit that outputs a reference statistical value, and a display unit that displays the first analysis value and the reference statistical value together.

Image processing apparatus and storage medium

An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a dynamic image acquiring unit acquiring a dynamic image; a time range setting unit setting a first time range and a second time range in an overall time of the dynamic image; a thumbnail generating unit generating a first thumbnail image and a second thumbnail image that are still images obtained by performing statistical processing on frame images in the first time range and frame images in the second time range, respectively; and a display unit displaying the first thumbnail image and the second thumbnail image so that they can visually be compared with each other.

Image processing apparatus for acquiring a dynamic image and storage medium

An image processing device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a medical video image obtained by imaging of lungs, a holding unit configured to hold a lung field motion model, the lung field motion model simulating lung field motion, and a processing unit configured to process the medical video image by using the lung field motion model.

Image processing device, imaging system, and image processing program

An image processing apparatus includes: a base period extracting unit extracting a first target region period based on a first periodic change being a periodic change of a target region in a base moving image acquired by a base moving image acquiring unit; a reference period extracting unit extracting a second target region period based on a second periodic change being a periodic change of the target region in a reference moving image acquired by a reference moving image acquiring unit; a period adjusting unit performing period adjusting processing of synchronizing, for the first target region period or the second target region period, the first periodic change and the second periodic change with each other at a particular phase; and a display image generating unit generating a display image allowing for comparison between the base moving image and the reference moving image after the period adjusting processing is performed.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store corresponding information in which one or more images of one or more frame images included in a dynamic image and one or more calculation middle images generated from two or more frame images included in the dynamic image relative to the single pixel region for each pixel region including one or more pixels in a calculation result image having the statistic obtained by the calculation for a medical dynamic image as each pixel value; a specification unit configured to specify the one or more pixel regions in the calculation result image; and a determination unit configured to determine one or more output images based on one or more images corresponding to the one or more pixel regions specified by the specification unit in the corresponding information.

Dynamic image processing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium for providing diagnosis support

An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing technology capable of perceiving a motion of the shape of a target area. An image processing device () according to the present invention includes: a dynamic image acquiring unit () that acquires a dynamic image; a boundary line extracting means () that acquires a plurality of target area boundary lines by extracting boundary lines of a target area; a displacement correcting means () that acquires a predetermined number of displacement-corrected boundary lines in which a removal-required component is removed by calculating a displacement amount, which is the removal-required component, using a base boundary line as a displacement base for one or more of target area boundary lines other than the base boundary line among the plurality of target area boundary lines by using pixels corresponding to the plurality of target area boundary lines and correcting a predetermined number of the target area boundary lines other than the base boundary line by using the displacement amount after the calculation of the displacement amount; and a display means () that displays displacement-corrected boundary line information for display based on the predetermined number of displacement-corrected boundary lines.

Image processing device and program

An image processing apparatus includes a moving image acquiring unit that acquires a moving image including a plurality of frame images a respiratory information acquiring unit that performs a respiratory information acquiring processing of acquiring respiratory information synchronized at times at which the frame images are captured, a blood-flow-restricted time determining unit that performs a blood-flow-restricted time determining processing of determining, on the basis of the respiratory information, a blood-flow-restricted time indicating a time at which the blood flow of the target region is assumed to be restricted due to respiration, and a blood flow analysis correcting unit that performs a blood-flow-analysis content correcting processing of excluding the frame image captured at the blood-flow-restricted time from targets for blood flow analysis or decreasing the blood-flow-analysis importance of the frame image compared with another time period.

Image-processing apparatus and storage medium

An image analysis device includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a moving image showing a variation of a respiratory status, the moving image being formed with frame images including an image of a heart; an image analyzing unit configured to generate a first index indicating a cardiac status with respect to each of the frame images; and an index analyzing unit configured to derive a second index indicating lung function from a change caused in the first indexes by the respiratory status.

Image analysis device, imaging system and non-transitory recording medium generating an index indicating a cardiac status with respect to frame images

An image processing device inputs a bright field linage of a tissue slice in which a cell nucleus is stained and a fluorescent image of the tissue slice in which a specific biological substance is stained with a fluorescent staining reagent (S), extracts a cell nucleus from the image of the cell nucleus (S), extracts a fluorescent bright point from the fluorescent image (S), specifies a cell nucleus to which the fluorescent bright point is assigned on the basis of the distance between the cell nucleus and the fluorescent bright point, and assigns the fluorescent bright point with the cell nucleus (S).

Image processing device and storage medium for image processing

A dynamic radiographic imaging system includes a detecting section that detects periodic changes of a predetermined site of a subject; a recommended imaging (start) timing specifying section that specifies a recommended imaging start timing based on the detection result; a notifying section that makes a notification to a photographer in multiple stages as the recommended imaging start timing approaches; an operation unit that receives an instruction input from the photographer to start radiation imaging of the subject; and an image capturing control section that controls the radiation imaging in response to the instruction input by the operation unit. The dynamic radiographic imaging thus can be performed at an appropriate imaging timing without depending on the level of skill of the photographer for the body site that periodically changes such as the heart.

Dynamic radiographic imaging system

An image processing device extracts a candidate region and region information of the cell nucleus from a cell image (S), judges whether or not to correct the candidate region of the cell nucleus on the basis of the region information of the cell nucleus, and corrects the candidate region of the cell nucleus on the basis of the judged result (S).

A corresponding point candidate determiner () determines whether plural correlation peaks appear, based on a correlation value calculated by a corresponding point determiner (). In the case where the corresponding point candidate determiner () determines that plural correlation peaks appear, the corresponding point determiner () calculates a ratio between the correlation values as represented by the correlation peaks, determines one or more corresponding points, based on the calculated ratio, and notifies the determination result to an initial position setter (). In the case where the corresponding point determiner () searches plural corresponding points, the initial position setter () sets an initial search position with respect to each of the corresponding points in a reference image of a layer immediately higher than a target layer.

Corresponding point searching apparatus

To quantify the aggregation ability of various types of blood cells respectively within a short period of time. An apparatus for achieving the above-described object, which includes: a TV camera for taking an image of blood flow; an image processing section for identifying the types of blood cells contained in a blood cell retention part, in which blood cells are retained, from a blood flow image taken by the TV camera; and an aggregation ability calculation device for calculating at least one of the area, cell count and position of blood cells of each type as the aggregation ability of blood.

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Kakogawa, Japan

Osamu Toyama