Fujitsu Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Nikon Corporation

Niles Parts Company, Ltd.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Toray Industries, Inc.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Baxter International Inc.

Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.

Yazaki Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Media Devices Limited

Tsuyoshi Matsumoto

Yoshihiro Mizuno

Osamu Tsuboi

Norinao Kouma

Hisao Okuda

Hiromitsu Soneda

Hirohisa Naito

Kazumi Kubota

Satoshi Ueda

Tomohiro Takizawa

Xiaoyu Mi

Hirokazu Aritake

Takeo Takahashi

Mitsuhiro Okazaki

Hiroyuki Tomita

Tomoki Inoue

Fumio Yamagishi

Ippei Sawaki

Hiroshi Kameda

Hiroyasu Yoshikawa

Hideki Kawai

Tadao Takagi

Hideki Ogawa

Masayuki Kato

Kazushi Uno

Junji Tomita

Jose Castillo Deniega

Masayuki Ishikawa

Kaku Irisawa

Tsuyoshi Yokoyama

Yasuhiro Sato

Katsumi Suzuki

Makoto Suzuki

Masato Nakashima

Takatoshi Ashizawa

Isao Sugaya

Kazuhiro Hirota

Tetsuo Hattori

Tomohiro Mizuno

Tadashige Iwao

Tadahito Nobori

Shinji Kiyono

Koichi Tezuka

Isao Hara

Kenta Matsubara

Kazumi Mizutani

Akihiko Yabuki

Rika Tashiro

Satoshi Shimizu

Kazuhiro Arima

Tohru Fujimaki

Mitsuyuki Mizoguchi

Takahisa Miyawaki

Hiroyuki Sakayama

Shin Eguchi

Goro Kawasaki

Thomas M Duffy

Kazutoshi Usui

Kou Ohno

Paul Tomotaro Danset

Takeshi Okuhara

Takashi Sakamaki

Ikutomo Umeoka

Kazuya Kawashima

Masashi Hirome

Yoshiko Ono

Hidetoshi Amari

Hidetsugu Tanaka

Takahide Terada

Hiroyuki Shibata

Yoshiro Imai

Dai Murakoshi

Atsushi Shibahara

Hiroshi Oishi

Katsuhiko Funaki

Masayoshi Nakagawa

Takashi Morihara

Takaomi Hayashi

Masao Suzuki

Davinder S Dhatt

Hiroshi Miyata

Motokatsu Imai

Kazuyasu Oone

Kiyoshi Tanaka

Toshiyuki Yagasaki

Hidetoshi Nishihara

Tetsu Yamamoto

Davin Dhatt

Toshiyuki Yoshida

Kosei Takemoto

Takeshi Yamazaki

Masaya Sugita

Michihiro Tobe

Junichi Sawada

Nobuyuki Kanto

Toshihiro Yoshimura

Adam Benjamin Pely

Diku Pranav Mandavia

Takuya Masuda

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which allows an examiner to easily understand a depth reached by an insertion object in a case of inserting the insertion object into a blood vessel while capturing an ultrasound image representing a cross section of the blood vessel of the subject. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe; a monitor; an image acquisition unit that acquires ultrasound images of a plurality of frames in which a cross section of a blood vessel of a subject is consecutively imaged while the ultrasound probe is moved; an insertion object detection unit that detects an insertion object inserted into the subject, from each of the ultrasound images of the plurality of frames; and a superimposed display unit that superimposes at least one insertion object detected from the ultrasound images of the plurality of frames by the insertion object detection unit, on the ultrasound image of a latest frame among the ultrasound images of the plurality of frames, and displays the insertion object on the monitor.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which allow a user to intuitively and easily correct a specifying result of a blood vessel region. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a blood vessel region specifying unit that specifies a blood vessel region on the basis of a score threshold value from ultrasound images of a plurality of frames acquired in a time-series manner; a monitor that displays the ultrasound image and the specified blood vessel region; an input device that accepts designation of a position and designation regarding addition or deletion of the blood vessel region by a user; a correction region setting unit that sets a correction region on the ultrasound image on the basis of the position designated by the user; and a threshold value correction unit that corrects the score threshold value according to a designation content by the user, in which the blood vessel region specifying unit performs processing of specifying the blood vessel region on the basis of the corrected score threshold value, from the ultrasound image in the correction region.

In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a panoramic image generation unit generates a panoramic image from ultrasound image data or ultrasound images of a plurality of frames included in the same tomographic plane formed by moving an ultrasound probe. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on a display screen is present in the panoramic image, a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the panoramic image, and a notification unit notifies of a message in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region. Accordingly, the user can easily understand a state of the blood vessel in the hidden region of the panoramic image in a case of performing the blood vessel puncture while observing the panoramic image.

In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a posture sensor detects whether an orientation of a monitor is a vertically long posture or a laterally long posture, and a display control unit displays an ultrasound image on a display screen on the basis of the orientation of the monitor. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on the display screen is present in the ultrasound image, and a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the ultrasound image. Then, in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region, an orientation suggestion unit suggests to change the orientation of the monitor. Accordingly, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, an appropriate orientation of the monitor for observing the blood vessel in the ultrasound image is suggested to the user.

A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a computing device and includes receiving ultrasound images that include a blood vessel, and determining, with a neural network implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device, diameters of the blood vessel in the ultrasound images. The diameters include a respective diameter of the blood vessel for each ultrasound image of the ultrasound images. The method includes determining a blood vessel diameter based on the diameters of the blood vessel, selecting a color based on the blood vessel diameter, and indicating, in one of the ultrasound images, the blood vessel with an indicator having the color.

Displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of performing an appropriate examination according to a gender of a subject without requiring a user to input the gender of the subject. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a bladder extraction unit that extracts a bladder region from an ultrasound image; a gender determination unit that determines a gender of a subject based on a shape of the bladder region in a case where an area of the extracted bladder region is larger than a predetermined area threshold value; and an observation support unit that supports an observation of a next observation site which is determined according to the determined gender of the subject.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of performing urinary organ examination according to gender of subject

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () includes a gel layer thickness calculation unit () that calculates a thickness of a gel layer by analyzing an ultrasound image; a tissue recognition unit () that recognizes a tissue of a subject by analyzing the ultrasound image; and a press state determination unit () that determines a press state of an ultrasound probe () against a body surface of the subject on the basis of a shape change of the tissue recognized by the tissue recognition unit () in a case where the calculated thickness of the gel layer is equal to or less than a thickness threshold value.

Provided are an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of appropriately highlighting a blood vessel in an ultrasound image depending on an insertion situation of an insert, and a method of controlling the same. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatusincludes a transducer array, an image acquisition unitthat acquires an ultrasound image, a display devicethat displays the ultrasound image, an image analysis unitthat analyzes the ultrasound image to detect a blood vessel and an insert in the ultrasound image, a highlighting unitthat highlights the blood vessel detected by the image analysis unitin displaying the ultrasound image, and an apparatus controllerthat controls the highlighting unit. The apparatus controllerperforms control such that the highlighting unitchanges a form in highlighting the blood vessel depending on a relative positional relationship between the blood vessel and the insert.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

An acoustic wave measurement apparatus includes: an image display unit that displays an acoustic wave image; a measurement target designation receiving unit that receives designation of a measurement target; a position designation receiving unit that receives designation of a position of a measurement target on the acoustic wave image displayed on the image display unit; a measurement method information receiving unit that receives measurement method information indicating a measurement method; a detection measurement algorithm setting unit that sets a detection measurement algorithm based on the measurement target received by the measurement target designation receiving unit and the measurement method information received by the measurement method information receiving unit; and a measurement unit that detects the measurement target based on the received position and the detection measurement algorithm and performs measurement for the detected measurement target.

Acoustic wave measurement apparatus and operation method of acoustic wave measurement apparatus

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which can accurately observe a target site regardless of a user' skill level even in a case where gas is accumulated in an intestine of a subject. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that performs transmission and reception of ultrasound beams using the ultrasound probe, and acquires a plurality of frames of ultrasound images which are continuous in time and in which a lower abdomen of a subject is imaged; a gas specifying unit that specifies a gas region or a gas condition on the basis of the ultrasound image; a gas change measurement unit that measures a change of the gas region or the gas condition specified by the gas specifying unit in a case where the ultrasound probe is pressed against the subject; and an imaging guide unit that provides guidance on ultrasound image capturing on the basis of the change of the gas region or the gas condition measured by the gas change measurement unit.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (), which performs a compression test with respect to at least two points of a popliteal vein and a common femoral vein of a subject, includes an ultrasound probe (), an image acquisition unit () that acquires an ultrasound image by transmitting an ultrasound beam toward the subject from the ultrasound probe (), a vein detection unit () that detects the popliteal vein included in the ultrasound image, and an operation guiding unit () that guides a user, in a case where the compression test of the popliteal vein is performed, to operate the ultrasound probe such that the ultrasound probe () is positioned at a position in which only one popliteal vein is included in the ultrasound image based on the number of the popliteal veins detected by the vein detection unit ().

A puncture needle includes a shaft-part, a needle-tip-part disposed at a tip of the shaft-part, and processed-parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft-part along a length direction of the shaft-part and form an arithmetic progression in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle-tip-part, wherein among the processed-parts, an arrangement interval between a first-processed-part which is separated from the needle-tip-part by a predetermined distance and is closest to the needle-tip-part and a second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than a tolerance of the arithmetic progression, or a distance from the needle-tip-part to the first-processed-part which is closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than the tolerance of the arithmetic progression and equal to a difference between the arrangement interval between the first-processed-part and the second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-part and the tolerance.

Puncture needle, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.

Ultrasound credentialing system

A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.

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