Sysmex Corporation

Toa Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.

Medicaroid Corporation

Sysmex Corporation and Ken Ishihara

Yasuhiro Kouchi

Kaoru Asano

Ken Ishihara

Takeo Saitou

Tetsuya Nakanishi

Hideo Kusuzawa

Mitsuichi Hiratsuka

Masayoshi Seike

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Yasunori Maekawa

Hironori Kobayashi

Rokusaburo Kimura

Toshiyuki Ozawa

Mitsuru Watanabe

Junyi Ding

Akio Suzuki

Yutaka Maeda

Takayuki Koshihara

Soichi Oue

Hiromu Nakajima

A sample scraping method and a sample scraping device capable of efficiently scraping and collecting a biological tissue section without waste while suppressing contamination is provided. In a sample scraping method for scraping and collecting a biological tissue section held on a slide, the FFPE section held on the slide is heated, and the heated FFPE section is scraped by a blade such that the FFPE section that has been scraped off and remains on the blade is collected in a container.

Sample scraping method and sample scraping device

Disclosed is a medical robot system including medical robots placed at different locations and a data analysis apparatus. Each of the medical robots includes a controller that transmits data on a state of operation of the medical robot to the data analysis apparatus. The data analysis apparatus includes a data analysis unit that generates a reference for determining whether or not the medical robots are normal, based on the data transmitted from the medical robots. The data analysis unit monitors the data transmitted from each of the medical robots in operation based on the reference.

Medical robot system, data analysis apparatus, and medical-robot monitoring method

A treatment effect prediction system, comprising: a processor; and a memory, under control of the processor, including instructions enabling the processor to carry out operations comprising: determining a patient pathological condition information, which represents a feature of pathological condition of a patient, based on diagnostic data of the patient; accessing a database of stored pathological condition information and corresponding treatment effects occurring when predetermined treatment is provided; and retrieving, from the database, a specific treatment effect corresponding to the one of the stored pathological condition information that is similar to the patient pathological condition information, is disclosed. A treatment effect prediction method and a computer program product thereof are also disclosed.

Treatment effect prediction system, a treatment effect prediction method, and a computer program product thereof

A simulation system for simulating a function of a biological organ using a biological model in which the function of the biological organ are represented by a mathematical model with a computer is provided. The present system receives input of time-series actual measurement data representing the biological response of a subject, estimates the biological response of the subject at a time point at which the measurement is not performed by using the input time-series actual measurement data, and generates time-series reference data representing the biological response of the subject. The present system further generates a virtual biological organ virtually constructed in a computer system using the times-series reference data. The virtual biological organ corresponds to the function of a biological organ of the subject.

Simulation system of function of biological organ

A diagnostic support system for diabetes including an input device used for inputting diagnostic data including clinical testing data; a biological model having parameters and which represents a organ function related to diabetes as a numerical model; an predicting means for predicting parameter values suited for a patient based on the diagnostic data and the biological model; a pathological condition analyzing means for analyzing a diabetic pathological condition of a patient based on the parameter values predicted by the predicting means; a diagnostic support information generating means for generating diagnostic support information based on the analyzed pathological condition; and a diagnostic support information outputting means for outputting information obtained by the diagnostic support information generating means. A computer-readable storage medium is also disclosed.

Diagnostic support system for diabetes and storage medium

The purpose is to fix a portion of a living body, which is an object of measurement, stably without strain and to acquire accurate inspection results with good reproducibility. An apparatus for capturing an image of a living body includes: a base for mounting a portion of a living body to be inspected; two sidewall members capable of holding the mounted portion of the living body therebetween from both sides; a light source section for supplying a light to the portion of the living body held on the base and between the sidewall members; and a light receiving section for detecting optical information from the portion of the living body supplied with the light, and a non-invasive apparatus for living body inspection including the above apparatus for capturing an image of a living body in which the light receiving section includes an image capturing element, and an analyzing section for calculating information on blood flowing through a blood vessel by analyzing an image of a tissue including the blood vessel obtained by the image capturing element.

Living body inspecting apparatus and noninvasive blood analyzer using the same

Noninvasive blood analyzer

A non-invasive blood analyzer includes a light source unit for irradiating a portion of a living body, the portion including a blood vessel, and includes an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the irradiated portion. An analyzing unit is included for setting an analysis region in the captured image and analyzing a blood vessel portion in the set analysis region. The image capturing unit captures images of the irradiated portion of the living body a plurality of times and the analyzing unit specifies analysis regions including the same blood vessel portions with respect to the captured images. The analyzing unit determines these regions based upon a position of a feature in sequential images and calculates at least one of blood vessel width, blood component concentration and blood component concentration ratio with respect to the blood vessel portion in each specified analysis region.

Non-invasive blood analyzer

A non-invasive blood analyzer is intended to capture images of a prescribed volume of blood in a blood vessel in a non-invasive manner and with a good contrast without collecting blood from a living body. The non-invasive blood analyzer includes a light application device for illuminating a detection region of vessels contained in a part of a living body, an image capturing device for capturing images of the detection region illuminated by the light application device, and an analyzer for analyzing blood components contained in the detection region by processing the images captured by the image capturing device. The image capturing device includes an object lens for converging the reflected light from the detection region. The light application device illuminates the detection region at an incident angle larger than an aperture angle of the object lens with respect to the detection region to provide dark-field illumination.

An apparatus for analyzing blood includes an image capturing device for capturing an image including at least one object blood cell and an analyzer for analyzing the captured image as an image F(x, y) in an x-y coordinate system. The analyzer includes an edge calculator for calculating an edge intensity distribution E(x, y) representing an outline of the image F(x, y); a weight memory for storing in advance a weight distribution W(i, j) corresponding to an average outline of the object cell; an assessment value calculator for obtaining an assessment value C (x, y) at each point (x, y) by calculating a degree of correspondence between the edge intensity distribution E (x, y) and the weight distribution W(i, j) for each point (x, y); and an extractor for extracting a point (x, y) at which the assessment value C(x, y) is larger than a predetermined value, thereby determining that the object blood cell is present at the point (x, y). The apparatus is useful as a device for identifying the object blood cell.

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Kakogawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Kouchi