Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoyuki Makihira

Kazuhide Miyata

Makoto Sato

Yoshihiko Iwase

Ritsuya Tomita

Hiroyuki Shinbata

Daisuke Kibe

Kazuro Yamada

Yasunari Kobaru

Nobuhiro Tomatsu

Hiroaki Sakai

Atsushi Iwasaki

Akira Kato

Koji Nozato

Masafumi Maeda

Hiroshi Takami

Nobuhito Suehira

Takashi Narahara

Takayasu Yuminamochi

Tomoyuki Ikegami

Yohei Minatoya

Yukio Sakagawa

Hiroshi Kataoka

Hiroki Uchida

Hirofumi Yoshida

Norihiko Utsunomiya

Tsutomu Utagawa

Hiroyuki Sakakibara

Masaru Tsukada

Yasuyuki Numajiri

Yohei Saito

Akihito Uji

Shizuma Nishimura

Mitsuhiro Ito

Takaaki Aoyagi

Nagahisa Yoshimura

Makoto Fukuhara

Seietsu Miura

Masashi Kotoku

Isao Komine

Osamu Sotome

Hiroto Tachikawa

An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first medical image of an object under examination; an image quality improving unit configured to generate, from the obtained first medical image, a second medical image with image quality higher than image quality of the obtained first medical image using a learned model; a comparing unit configured to compare an analysis result obtained by analyzing the obtained first medical image and an analysis result obtained by analyzing the generated second medical image; and a display controlling unit configured to cause a comparison result obtained by the comparing unit to be displayed on a display unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium

Provided is an imaging method for correcting aberration generated when imaging an object to be inspected. The imaging method includes: irradiating an imaging area with a first light beam which is scanned by a scan unit and taking an image of the object to be inspected based on return light of the first light beam; detecting a moving amount of the object to be inspected; comparing the detected moving amount with a predetermined threshold value; and adjusting the imaging area to be irradiated with the first light beam. The adjusting includes determining in accordance with a result of the comparison to change the imaging area by at least one of: using the scan unit, and using an aberration correcting unit.

Fundus imaging apparatus and imaging method

An image processing apparatus includes a tomographic signal obtaining unit that obtains tomographic signals of light beams, the light beams respectively having a different polarization from each other and being obtained by splitting combined light obtained by combining return light and reference light, the return light being from an object to be inspected that is irradiated with measuring light, and an information obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional polarization tomographic information, and three-dimensional motion contrast information of the object to be inspected, by commonly using at least one of the obtained tomographic signals. In addition, an extracting unit extracts a specific region of the object to be inspected using the obtained three-dimensional polarization tomographic information, and an image generating unit generates a motion contrast enface image of the extracted specific region using the obtained three-dimensional motion contrast information.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that generate a motion contrast enface image

An Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) data processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire three dimensional (3-D) OCT data of an object to be inspected, a generation unit configured to generate a motion contrast image based on the 3-D OCT data, and a detection unit configured to detect a inner surface coordinate of a vessel wall based on position information of an edge of a vessel region in the motion contrast image.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) data processing method, storage medium storing program for executing the OCT data processing method, and processing device

To provide pathological support for users to effectively perform follow up on diseases, using polarization information obtained from polarization-sensitive tomographic images. An image processing apparatus includes a positioning unit configured to position multiple polarization-sensitive tomographic images corresponding to multiple tomographic luminance images, based on the plurality of tomographic luminance images obtained by photographing an object at different times; and a comparing unit configured to compare the plurality of polarization-sensitive tomographic images which are positioned.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus which captures a tomographic image of a subject's eye using interference light obtained by combining a return light from the subject's eye irradiated by measurement light and a reference light includes a control unit configured to perform (a) control, when a first imaging mode for capturing the tomographic image of the subject's eye is selected, to display the tomographic image as a first tomographic image of the subject's eye on a display unit and (b) control, when a second imaging mode different from the first imaging mode is selected, to display a second tomographic image of the subject's eye on the display unit, the second tomographic image generated using the tomographic image to increase intensity of the second tomographic image higher than that of the first tomographic image.

Ophthalmologic imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and program

Focus adjustment is enabled with respect to an object to be inspected even when an optical member for changing a field angle is inserted in order to change the field angle of an acquiring area of a tomographic image, and a clear tomographic image with a focus on the object to be inspected is acquired. In an optical tomographic imaging apparatus, an optical system includes a focus lens configured to focus a measuring light on the object to be inspected. The optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a unit configured to compensate, when an optical member for changing a field angle is inserted between a scanning unit and the object to be inspected in order to change the field angle of an acquiring area of a tomographic image, a change in a focus position of the focus lens in association with the inserting.

Optical tomographic imaging apparatus, control method therefor, and program therefor

To acquire information relating to a vessel wall thickness by: acquiring interference signal sets of a plurality of frames including interference signal sets corresponding to a plurality of frames forming an image of the same cross section of an fundus; generating 3-D tomographic image data on the fundus from the interference signal sets of the plurality of frames; generating 3-D motion contrast data in the fundus from the interference signal sets corresponding to the plurality of frames that form the same cross section; extracting a vessel from the fundus based on the 3-D tomographic image data or the 3-D motion contrast data; detecting a coordinate of an outer surface of a vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D tomographic image data; and detecting a coordinate of an inner surface of the vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D motion contrast data.

OCT data processing method, storage medium storing program for executing the OCT data processing method, and processing device

An image processing apparatus includes a tomographic image acquisition unit configured to acquire a polarization-sensitive tomographic image of a subject, and an extraction unit configured to extract, from the polarization-sensitive tomographic image of the subject, a region in which a polarization state is scrambled.

To accurately position a past photography position and a photography position this time in follow up using polarization OCT images. In follow up, multiple polarization-sensitive tomographic images are positioned based on multiple polarization planar images of an object, corresponding to multiple polarization-sensitive tomographic images obtained by photographing the object at another time.

Photography apparatus and photography method

A control apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a measurement object with a measuring beam, a restriction unit configured to restrict the measuring beam from being incident on the measurement object and to reflect or scatter the measuring beam, and a polarization control unit configured to control, based on the measuring beam reflected or scattered by the restriction unit, polarization of the measuring beam.

Control apparatus and control method

In order to suppress a load on a subject when a fundus is irradiated with multiple beams, a fundus imaging apparatus for forming an image of a first area in the object, includes: a determination unit for determining a second area other than the first area in the object to be inspected; a detection unit for detecting moving of the object to be inspected on the basis of return light from the second area, which is irradiated with second light; a correction unit for correcting the first area on the basis of the detected moving; and a forming unit for forming an image of the object to be inspected on the basis of the return light from the corrected first area, which is irradiated with the first light.

Fundus imaging apparatus and method

An ophthalmic imaging apparatus performs imaging to produce a tomographic image of a fundus of an examined eye based on interference light obtained by combining measurement light and reference light, determines whether aliasing has occurred in the tomographic image, when it is determined that the aliasing has occurred, moves a position in which an optical path length of the measurement light and an optical path length of the reference light match from a retina side to a choroid side of the examined eye, and generates a fundus image based on the tomographic image that has been produced through imaging in a state where the position has been moved to the choroid side.

Ophthalmic imaging apparatus, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes a planar image acquisition unit configured to acquire a planar image of a subject, a tomographic image acquisition unit configured to acquire a tomographic image indicating a polarization state of the subject, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the planar image and the tomographic image indicating the polarization state side by side.

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Tomoyuki Makihira