Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Tomohiro Kawasaki

Satoshi Wakai

Kensuke Shinoda

Hitoshi Yamagata

Shigeharu Ohyu

Masashi Yoshida

Takeshi Ezumi

Kyohei Yamamori

Yasunori Ohshima

Yasuko Fujisawa

Hideaki Ishii

Yoshihiro Ikeda

Atsuko Sugiyama

Nobuyuki Konuma

Tetsuya Yokota

Arturo Calderon

Ryo Shiroishi

Fumiki Nakano

Yasuyuki Miyoshi

Yasuhito Nagai

Yoshifumi Yamagata

Yasuhira Kondo

Tomoki Ooyasu

Yunosuke Haru

A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to record, when a layout of a display area is changed at a first step included in a clinical workflow, layout change information that indicates a changed content, determine, when the layout of the display area is changed at the first step, whether to change a layout of a display area set in advance for a second step that is any step after the first step, based on the layout change information, and change the layout at the second step based on a result of determination.

Medical information processing apparatus and medical information processing method

A medical image diagnosis apparatus for use in a therapeutic procedure to a subject includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a status of a current therapeutic procedure; determine at least one proposed preset of settings of the medical image diagnosis apparatus according to the status of the current therapeutic procedure; and perform a control in accordance with the at least one proposed preset.

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

A stage determination support system according to an embodiment includes devices. The storage device stores a plurality of kinds of functional images of a subject. The first determination device determines a degree of each of a plurality of kinds of analysis indices relating to a disease, based on at least the functional images among functional images and the morphological images. The second determination device determines, based on each of determination results and a predetermined stage determination rule, a stage corresponding to the determination result with respect to each of the analysis indices. The calculation device calculates, with respect to each of the stages, a value indicative of a possibility that the disease corresponds to the stage, based on each of determination results.

Stage determination support system

According to the embodiments, a medical image diagnosis apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores volume data on a target portion including a vessel network and a plurality of blood vessels connected to the vessel network. The processing circuitry extracts the vessel network and the blood vessels from the volume data. The processing circuitry analyzes how hemodynamics in the vessel network are after treatment of the vessels.

Medical image processing apparatus, medical image diagnosis apparatus and recording medium

An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a value of an index related to a predetermined disease for each of a plurality of sites included in a brain of a patient, on the basis of a plurality of pieces of medical image data obtained by imaging the brain of the patient at each of a plurality of points in time. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze, for each of the plurality of sites, a relationship between changes in the value at the plurality of points in time and a progress model indicating changes in the index through progress of the predetermined disease. The processing circuitry is configured to output an analysis result obtained from the analysis for each of the plurality of sites.

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

An image processing display and an image processing display program that can prevent interference with catheter treatment even when the distal end of a catheter is located behind a treatment apparatus on X-ray fluoroscopic images. The image processing display displays X-ray fluoroscopic images to be obtained by looking through a region including blood vessels using X-rays during treatment, and includes a treatment apparatus image extractor and an image processor. The treatment apparatus image extractor, based on X-ray fluoroscopic images, extracts treatment apparatus images representing the treatment apparatus having the property of absorbing X-rays. The image processor determines the distal end position of the catheter to superimpose and display images representing the determined distal end position of the catheter on the region of the X-ray fluoroscopic images showing the treatment apparatus.

Image processing display device and an image processing display program

A medical image displaying apparatus is provided that improves the workability of making a definitive diagnosis in capsule endoscopy. A medical image displaying apparatus of an embodiment is capable of displaying a virtual endoscopic image in a tube based on a viewpoint set inside the tube of the tubular body by using a three-dimensional image of the tubular body, and comprises a capsule endoscopic image storage and a display controller, and the capsule endoscopic image storage stores capsule endoscopic images acquired by a capsule endoscope passing inside the tube. The display controller displays the capsule endoscopic images based on the location of the viewpoint.

Medical image displaying apparatus and a medical image diagnostic apparatus

A medical image processing apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets a first region and a second region different from the first region on first volume data and sets the first and second regions on second volume data, the first regions each including an observation target. The processing circuitry performs a former alignment on the second regions of the first and second volume data. The processing circuitry performs a latter alignment on the first regions of the first and second volume data by using a result of the former alignment. The processing circuitry applies a measurement condition used for a measurement of the observation target in the first volume data to a measurement of the observation target in the second volume data by using a result of the latter alignment.

Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method

A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment for visualization of each of plural captured image volume data having time of day information includes a generator configured to generate interpolation volume data for interpolation in the plural captured image volume data, based on the plural captured image volume data, and a display unit configured to visualize and display the plural captured image volume data and the interpolation volume data. The generator extracts a feature region in the captured image volume data, and is configured such that processing for generating the interpolation volume data for the feature region is different from processing for generating the interpolation volume data for other regions, so as to suppress a change in shape of the feature region.

Medical image processing apparatus

Included are a storage unit for storing as first medical image information a three-dimensional image representing information about an inside of the subject; an image processor for generating a display image on the basis of the first medical image information and second medical image information; and a display for displaying the display image generated by the image processor. The image processor includes: a catheter position information detector for calculating a position of the balloon catheter C and detecting position information; and a balloon pressure-contact degree calculator for calculating a pressure-contact degree A of the tissues of the subject and a balloon b on the basis of the first medical image information and the position information.

Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an image generating unit, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, a flap identifying unit, a first synthesizing unit, an alignment processing unit and a second synthesizing unit. The image generating unit generates an echocardiographic image including an aorta. The acquiring unit acquires a heart area image including the aorta. The extracting unit extracts an artery region based on the heart area image. The flap identifying unit identifies a flap region based on the artery region. The first synthesizing unit synthesizes information on the flap region onto the artery region to generate a first synthesized image. The alignment processing unit performs processing to align an imaging region in the echocardiography on the heart area image based on a positional data signal. The second synthesizing unit synthesizes information that indicates the imaging region processed for alignment onto the first synthesized image to generate a second synthesized image.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnosis assisting method

According to one embodiment, storage unit stores three-dimensional function image data concerning a function index of the heart. The extraction unit extracts a myocardial region from the three-dimensional function image data. The normalization unit normalizes the distance between the inner wall and outer wall of the myocardial region with a predetermined numerical value range. The generation unit generates a bull's eye map expressing a spatial distribution of pixel values at positions on the myocardial region by two-dimensional polar coordinates. The positions correspond to predetermined values in the predetermined numerical value range. The display unit displays the bull's eye map.

Medical image processing apparatus that normalizes a distance between an inner wall and outer wall of the myocardial region

A medical image processing apparatus includes a vessel running data generating unit, a lesion site detecting unit, a vessel dominant region data generating unit, a lesion site dominant region data generating unit, and a diagnostic image data generating unit. The vessel running data generating unit generates vessel running data of a vessel. The lesion site detecting unit detects positional information of a lesion site in the vessel. The vessel dominant region data generating unit generates vessel dominant region data indicating a region dominated by the vessel in a region provided with nutrition. The lesion site dominant region data generating unit generates lesion site dominant region data indicating a region dominated by the lesion site in the region provided with nutrition. The diagnostic image data generating unit generates diagnostic image data by superimposing the vessel dominant region data and the lesion site dominant region data on morphological image data.

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a storage unit, a specifying unit, a calculation unit, and a display unit. The storage unit stores a three-dimensional image associated with a cardiac region of a subject. The specifying unit specifies a plurality of cardiac valves from a vascular region included in the three-dimensional image by image processing. The calculation unit calculates index values indicating open/close degrees of the cardiac valves. The display unit displays the index values.

Image processing apparatus

An X-ray imaging machine is configured such that a three-dimensional blood-vessel information creating unit creates information concerning a three-dimensional blood-vessel core line and a position of a plaque in a subject blood vessel based on three-dimensional volume data obtained from an image taken by an X-ray computed tomography apparatus. A plaque-depth information image creating unit creates a plaque-depth information image on which the plaque is differently displayed in accordance with whether the plaque is present in front of or in the back of the three-dimensional blood-vessel core line with respect to a projection direction, based on the created information concerning the three-dimensional blood-vessel core line and the position of the plaque. An X-ray image display unit displays the created plaque-depth information image over an X-ray image in a superimposed manner.

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Tomohiro Kawasaki