Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

The Johns Hopkins University

Yasuhiko Abe

Tetsuya Kawagishi

Hiroyuki Ohuchi

Shinichi Hashimoto

Shogo Fukuda

Makoto Hirama

Takeshi Sato

Yasunori Honjo

Ryoichi Kanda

Koji Ando

Tomoya Okazaki

Hitoshi Yamagata

Tomoyuki Takeguchi

Yukinobu Sakata

Yoichi Ogasawara

Masahide Nishiura

Mitsuo Akiyama

Katsuhisa Ishii

Naohisa Kamiyama

Yasunori Taguchi

Kazuhiro Iinuma

Akihiro Kakee

Takuya Sasaki

Koichiro Kurita

Ryota Osumi

Tetsuya Yoshida

Muneki Kataguchi

Yoko Okamura

Joao A C Lima

Toshie Maruyama

Shunsuke Satoh

Yurika Ogawa

Susumu Uchiyama

Thomas Helle-Valle

Toshihiko Asanuma

Satoshi Nakatani

According to one embodiment, a medical processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry adds incidental information including information regarding a kind concerning each of a plurality of regions in a heart to an analysis result of each of the regions. The analysis result is obtained by analyzing medical data. The processing circuitry determines a display position of the analysis result of each of the regions based on the incidental information.

Medical processing apparatus and medical processing method

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a function index value of each heart chamber for two heart chambers, including the left ventricle, included in a moving image of a heart. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate an image by superimposing a range suggestion image on a two-dimensional coordinate space. In the two-dimensional coordinate space, the processing circuitry allocates the function index value of the each heart chamber to each display dimension corresponding to the each heart chamber and defines the functional index value of the left ventricle as an output coordinate. In the range suggestion image, the processing circuitry colors the range suggestion image according to predetermined normal range and abnormal range for the functional index value of the left ventricle.

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

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment comprises an ultrasonic probe, image generation circuitry, and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe performs ultrasonic scanning on a two-dimensional region of a subject. The image generation circuitry generates ultrasonic image data corresponding to the two-dimensional region. The processing circuitry calculates a characteristic amount of a structure that is detected from each of a plurality of pieces of ultrasonic image data generated by the ultrasonic scanning at different positions. The processing circuitry outputs information based on a comparison result of the calculated characteristic amounts.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and control method

An ultrasonic wave diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of pieces of volume data obtained through image capturing of a region including the cardiac ventricle of a subject for a predetermined duration. The processing circuitry estimates motion of tissue of the cardiac ventricle by using the pieces of volume data. The processing circuitry calculates, based on a result of the estimation, cardiac ventricle information indicating at least one of wall motion information and volume information related to the cardiac ventricle. The processing circuitry calculates, based on a result of the estimation, annulus information related to the size or shape of an annulus position of a valve related to inflow or outflow of blood current at the cardiac ventricle. The processing circuitry outputs the cardiac ventricle information and the annulus information.

Ultrasonic wave diagnostic apparatus, medical information processing apparatus, and computer program product

An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate ultrasound images in a time series on the basis of data acquired by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound wave. Every time an ultrasound image satisfying a predetermined condition is generated, the processing circuitry is configured to perform a position aligning process between the ultrasound image satisfying the predetermined condition and a reference image obtained in advance. The processing circuitry is configured to identify, within the ultrasound image satisfying the predetermined condition, a region of interest set in the reference image, on the basis of a result of the position aligning process and to track the region of interest in ultrasound images in a time series that are newly generated by the image generating unit during or after the position aligning process.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus controlling method

In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment, processing circuitry obtains volume data corresponding to at least one cardiac cycle and being taken of a region including the right ventricle of a patient. The processing circuitry estimates motion information of a tissue in the region by using the volume data. The processing circuitry calculates information including at least one selected from between wall motion information and volume information related to the right ventricle, on the basis of the motion information of the tissue. The processing circuitry outputs the calculated information. The processing circuitry corrects first motion information of the right ventricular outflow tract, which is an outflow tract of the right ventricle, by using second motion information of a site that is positioned in the vicinity of the right ventricular outflow tract and exhibits motion similar to that of the right ventricular outflow tract.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, medical image processing apparatus, and medical image processing method

An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a calculating unit, an obtaining unit, a determining unit, and a controlling unit. By using a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional ultrasound image data in a time series corresponding to a three-dimensional region including a myocardium of a subject, the calculating unit calculates first movement information indicating a movement of the myocardium by tracking a movement of a region of interest that corresponds to the myocardium and that is set in each of the plurality of pieces of three-dimensional image data. The obtaining unit obtains direction information indicating a direction of a myocardial fiber in the myocardium. The determining unit determines second movement information indicating a movement of the myocardium with respect to the direction of the myocardial fiber, on the basis of the first movement information and the direction information. The controlling unit causes a display unit to display the second movement information.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and image processing apparatus

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. With respect to pieces of image data of a plurality of cross sections passing through the heart of a subject that have been collected by ultrasonically scanning each of the cross sections for a period of at least one heart beat, the processing circuitry performs tracking processing including two-dimensional pattern matching to generate pieces of analysis information in each of which a cardiac wall motion of the heart in each section is analyzed. The processing circuitry matches time phases of the pieces of analysis information of the cross sections and maps the pieces of analysis information of the cross sections with the matched time phases on a predetermined polar coordinate system to generate a polar coordinate display image. The processing circuitry causes display of the polar coordinate display image.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and image processing method

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a data acquisition unit configured to execute ultrasonic scanning for a tissue region throughout a predetermined period and acquire a plurality of image data respectively corresponding to phases in the predetermined period; a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of a region of interest in the tissue region at least one phase in the period by executing tracking processing using at least part of the plurality of image data; a shape information calculation unit configured to calculate shape information corresponding to the region of interest at least one phase in the period by using positional information of the region of interest at the at least one phase; and an output unit configured to output the shape information at the at least one phase.

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The ultrasonic probe collects reflected wave data in a time series manner from a region of a subject in motion. The processing circuitry generates time-series volume data from the reflected wave data collected by the ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry calculates at least either of volume information and motion information on a region of interest of the subject by performing processing including tracking using the volume data. The processing circuitry sets one or more feature positions that represent anatomical features in the region of interest. The processing circuitry displays an MPR image that passes through at least one of the feature positions. The processing circuitry outputs at least either of the volume information and the motion information that includes the feature positions as boundaries.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment, processing circuitry obtains volume video data of a patient acquired by a transesophageal echocardiography probe. The processing circuitry sets, with the volume video data, a three-dimensional coordinate system that matches a display orientation of image data of the patient acquired by a body-surface ultrasound probe, on the basis of a positional relationship between the transesophageal echocardiography probe and the patient. The processing circuitry causes a display screen to display image data generated from the volume video data by using the set three-dimensional coordinate system. The processing circuitry receives, from an operator, a designation related to calculating movement information in a region of interest of the patient, the designation being received in an image displayed on the display screen. The processing circuitry calculates the movement information by performing processing including a tracking process, while using the volume video data.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires local function index values related to a right ventricle. The processing circuitry generates a functional image of the right ventricle representing a distribution of the local function index values, using a medical model diagram of the right ventricle, the medical model diagram being a model diagram in which the right ventricle is developed onto a plane, and in which a blood inlet portion leading into the right ventricle and a blood outflow portion leading out from the right ventricle are plotted to positions that are separated from each other on the external circumference side of the model diagram. The processing circuitry then causes a display to display the functional image of the right ventricle.

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

When displaying a plurality of images in different conformations in relation to information of a tissue motion typified by a heart wall motion, support information which is used to rapidly and easily visually confirm a relative positional correspondence relationship between an MPR image, a polar mapping image, and a three-dimensional image is generated and displayed. A marker indicative of a desired local position is set and displayed as required. Further, a position corresponding to the set or changed marker may not be present on the MPR image. In such a case, the MPR image always including a position corresponding to the set or changed marker is generated and displayed by automatically adjusting a position of an MPR cross section.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, ultrasonic image display apparatus, and medical image diagnostic apparatus

An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer, an evaluation value acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The evaluation value acquisition unit obtains an evaluation value for evaluating the function of tissue including a predetermined site based on biological information acquired for a predetermined period of time by the ultrasound transducer. The determination unit determines whether the function of the tissue is abnormal based on the evaluation value. The output unit outputs information based on a result of determination by the determination unit.

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus

An ultrasonography apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a calculating unit, a multiplying unit, and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of reception signals that are generated by assigning various kinds of weights on multiple reflected wave signals to which a delay according to a position in a reception aperture is given, and by adding the weighted signals for respective kinds of the weights. The calculating unit calculates a coefficient corresponding to each of positions on a scan line of the reception signals, based on any one of a signal and pixel value of each of positions based on at least one reception signal. The multiplying unit multiplies any one of the values of each of positions based on at least one different reception signal from said reception signal(s) by the coefficient to acquire output data. The generating unit generates ultrasonic image data based on the data.

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