Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Tomoya Okazaki

Yasunori Taguchi

Yukinobu Sakata

Yasuhiko Abe

Tomoyuki Takeguchi

Atsushi Yaguchi

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Toshimitsu Kaneko

Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Yasuko Fujisawa

Shuhei Nitta

Wataru Watanabe

Ryusuke Hirai

Shinichiro Mori

Keiko Okaya

Shogo Fukuda

Koji Ando

Takamasa Sugiura

Yurika Ogawa

Toshiyuki Minami

Kenichi Karasawa

Marco Visentini Scarzanella

A medical image processing device includes a region-of-interest acquirer, a treatment plan acquirer, a degree-of-influence calculator, and a display controller. The region-of-interest acquirer is configured to acquire a partial region within a body of a patient as a region of interest. The treatment plan acquirer is configured to acquire treatment plan information determined in a planning stage of radiation treatment to be performed on the patient. The degree-of-influence calculator is configured to calculate a degree of influence representing an influence on the region of interest up to a range until radiation with which the patient is irradiated reaches a target portion to be treated within the body of the patient. The display controller is configured to generate a display image in which information regarding the degree of influence is superimposed on a current fluoroscopic image of the patient and causes a display to display the display image.

Medical image processing device, treatment system, and storage medium

According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire medical image data. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain spatial distribution of likelihood values representing a likelihood of corresponding to a textual pattern in a predetermined region of a medical image for each of a plurality of textual patterns based on the medical image data. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate feature values in the predetermined region of the medical image based on the spatial distribution obtained for the each of the plurality of textual patterns.

Image processing apparatus, medical image diagnostic apparatus, and program

A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable image processing program that causes a computer to: obtain a captured image; detect, from the obtained image, a person area representing a person and an object area representing a predetermined object; detect positions of articulation points of the person from the detected person area; and estimate an action of the person based on the detected positions of the articulation points and the detected object area.

Storage medium storing image processing program, and image processor

According to an embodiment, a network training device includes a first training unit that trains a first network that converts an input signal to a first signal, a second training unit that trains a second network that converts the first signal to a second signal, and a third training unit that trains a third network that converts the second signal to an output signal. The first training unit trains the first network as an encoder of a first autoencoder. The second training unit trains the second network by backpropagation by using a second signal for training corresponding to the first signal for training as supervised data. The second signal for training is generated by an encoder of a second autoencoder that encodes a third signal for training into the second signal for training, and decodes the second signal for training into the third signal for training.

Network training device, network training system, network training method, and computer program product

A medical diagnostic apparatus according to one embodiment comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a three-dimensional shape of a first part based on a contour of the first part in each of a plurality of sectional images intersecting each other along an extending direction of the first part connecting to a cardiac chamber; acquire a three-dimensional shape of a second part, based on a contour of the second part in a sectional image along an extending direction of the second part connecting to the cardiac chamber; and generate a three-dimensional image representing at least some of the first part, the second part, and the cardiac chamber using a three-dimensional shape representing the cardiac chamber and the three-dimensional shapes of the first part and the second part acquired.

Medical diagnostic apparatus, medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method

A medical-image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuit acquires an initial value of an outline corresponding vector that corresponds to an outline of a subject included in medical image data. The processing circuitry updates the outline corresponding vector based on a derivative that is acquired by differentiating a cost function with respect to the outline corresponding vector by the outline corresponding vector, and on the initial value of the outline corresponding vector.

Medical-image processing apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and medical-image processing method

An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains three-dimensional medical image data, taken by using an ultrasound probe, of a region including a heart valve of a patient and a catheter inserted into a heart chamber of the patient. The processing circuitry determines an advancing direction of a tip end part of the catheter by obtaining information on a position and a posture of the tip end part included in the three-dimensional medical image data, by using at least one selected from shape information indicating the shape of the tip end part and reflection characteristic information indicating ultrasound reflection characteristics of the tip end part. The processing circuitry generates a display image from the three-dimensional medical image data in accordance with the position and the advancing direction of the tip end part. The processing circuitry causes the display image to be displayed.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and image processing method

A medical diagnosis apparatus of embodiments includes a scanner and processing circuitry. The scanner configured to scan a three-dimensional region including a target region and acquire data of the three-dimensional region. The processing circuitry is configured to discretely arrange fixed points framing three-dimensional shape of the target region in a first medical image based on the data. The processing circuitry is configured to set a boundary of region of interest (ROI) on the three-dimensional shape of the target region according to a position of the fixed point. The processing circuitry is configured to receive an instruction to change a position of the boundary from an input device controlled by a user. The processing circuitry is configured to change the position of the boundary based on a position or positions of at least one of the fixed points according to the instruction while maintaining positions of the fixed points.

Medical diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method for image processing

A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus according to embodiments includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry stores therein volume data concerning a three-dimensional region inside an object. The processing circuitry calculates an index value concerning a region of interest in the volume data, and generates a first medical image and a second medical image based on the index value. The respective positions in the first medical image and the second medical image are associated with each other by a certain coordinate conversion. The region of interest is divided into a plurality of first regions by a first boundary position. The second medical image is divided into a plurality of second regions by a second boundary position that is not altered in accordance with the alteration of the first boundary position.

Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image generating method

[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

A pickup device comprises a memory for storing therein positional data for parts, a camera for detecting a position of the parts, a displacement rate computing section for computing a displacement rate between the positional data stored and a position detected, a hand for picking up parts, a inserting posture deciding section for deciding a posture of the hand such as an inserting position or an inserting direction against the parts, a moving section for moving the hand according to the decided posture, a up-movement pin selecting section for selecting pins required for pushing up only desired parts, an interfering pin removing section for removing pins interfered by the hand, and a pin up-movement control section for raising the selected pins.

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Tomoya Okazaki