Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Obayashi Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sri International

The University of Tokyo

University of Toronto

Yuichi Ikeda

Nobuatsu Sasanuma

Tetsumaru Kubota

Tomohisa Sakurai

Hitoshi Karasawa

Keiichi Arai

Kazuya Hijii

Tetsuya Atsumi

Kenji Yoshino

Mitsumasa Okada

Toshimasa Kawai

Jun Koide

Yasushi Takeuchi

Seiichiro Kimoto

Takemitsu Honda

Yuichi Yamamoto

Kazuo Suzuki

Takayuki Yamamoto

Tomohisa Itagaki

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Hitoshi Mizuno

Toshihiko Hashiguchi

Tetsuya Nakamura

Rakesh Kumar

Eiichi Kobayashi

Supun Samarasekera

Yasuhito Kura

Tatsuya Kubota

Toshinari Maeda

Tadao Hagino

Toshihiko Suzuta

Hiroaki Kagawa

Takayasu Miyagi

Haruhiko Ueno

Masahiro Kudo

Jun Tomine

Hideo Nagazumi

Takeshi Takahashi

Shuji Nakamura

Yasuhiro Saito

Tamaki Horii

Hidefumi Takenaka

Nobuhiko Zaima

Kuniyasu Kimura

Eiichi Motoyama

Yoshihito Osari

Masakazu Gotanda

Hiroaki Tomiyasu

Kazuki Honda

Takahiko Yamaoka

Masanobu Koitabashi

Tomoaki Sato

Yutaka Masaki

Tatsuya Furukawa

Sho Shinji

Tatsuya Ishizuka

Kazuyuki Goto

Yukiko Nagaoka

Noriaki Kanazawa

Tatsuo Takeuchi

Akira Minezawa

Makoto Kanbayashi

Masahiro Inoue

Kazuyuki Miyazawa

Kenichi Nakagawa

Kazuhito Ohashi

Rie Saito

Koji Takamura

Raifu Matsui

Kazuhiko Arai

Atsushi Amano

Eiichi Fuse

Yuta Okada

Bogdan C Matei

Tsunao Honbo

Hidetoshi Kumagai

Yasutomo Shimizu

Ryo Tezuka

Garbis Salgian

Manami Hikosaka

Abhinav Rajvanshi

Yasuhiro Saitou

Akio Uchiyama

Yukihiro Toku

Matthieu Henri Lecce

Bernhard Ganss

A position detector applies an image to be inspected to a position detection model generated by machine learning using image information of a training image to calculate a score for a portion of an image to be inspected. The position detector specifies a portion of the image where the calculated score is a score that satisfies a predetermined relationship to detect the position of a metal part in the image to be inspected. A position outputter outputs the position of the metal part detected by the position detector.

Inspection device, inspection method, and recording medium for inspecting an inspection target with machine learning

A radiation imaging control apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a subject, a foreign matter detection unit configured to detect, in a case where a radiation image of the subject is to be acquired, a foreign matter which is likely to appear in the radiation image from the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a warning information generation unit configured to generate warning information regarding image capturing of a radiation image based on the foreign matter detection unit having detected a foreign matter in the captured image, and a display control unit configured to issue a notification based on the warning information.

Radiation imaging control apparatus, image processing apparatus, radiation imaging control method, image processing method, storage medium, and radiation imaging system

The present invention provides a comprehensive assay capable of comprehensively measuring interactive factors for a variety of different types of proteins. In the present invention, provided is a system for detecting activation of a protein by integrating, with mediation of a plurality of factors, changes in the transcriptional regulatory region of a gene whose expression is changed by activation of the protein. The stimulation response ratio of transcription activity before and after stimulation by ligands possessed by individual transcriptional regulatory regions is synergistically integrated, so that a highly sensitive reporter assay system can be constructed.

Membrane protein activity measurement method

An inspection processing system identifies a current position, obtains an inspection result of an inspection subject of a structure on the current position, and records the inspection result in association with the position of the inspection subject in a three-dimensional model of the structure. The inspection processing system further identifies a user who views the three-dimensional model and a current position, and outputs, to an output unit, an inspection result in which the user is recorded in an inspection information memory as a related person of the inspection subject. The inspection result is attached on a virtual image according to a three-dimensional model corresponding to the current position.

Inspection processing system, inspection processing method, and inspection processing program

A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes a flexible insertion section to be inserted into a subject and bent by a reaction force from the subject, a variable stiffness unit provided in the insertion section and configured to change a stiffness of the insertion section, and a shape detector configured to detect a bent shape of the insertion section. The apparatus further includes a force specifier configured to acquire a distribution of the reaction force on a distal side from a predetermined point in the bent shape and specify a maximum reaction force position, and a stiffness controller configured to control a stiffness of the variable stiffness unit so as to increase a stiffness of the variable stiffness unit between the predetermined point and the maximum reaction force position.

Flexible tube insertion apparatus, stiffness control apparatus, insertion method, and recording medium storing stiffness control program

A insertion apparatus includes a flexible tube, a detection section that detects state information of the tube, a calculation section that calculates, based on the state information, shape information of the tube, and an input section that inputs characteristic information of the tube. The apparatus also includes a calculation section that calculates, based on the characteristic information, an operation state of a distal end of the tube, an calculation section that calculates an insertion state of the tube at a specific point closer to a proximal end than the distal end, based on the shape information, characteristic information, and operation state, and a measurement section that measures an actual operation state of the tube at the specific point.

Flexible tube insertion apparatus

An inspection processing system includes a control unit connected to a photographing unit and an output unit. The control unit includes circuitry. The inspection processing system identifies a current position, displays a virtual image of a three-dimensional model of a structure corresponding to the current position. The virtual image is superimposed on a structure image obtained from the photographing unit. The inspection processing system further obtains an evaluation result of an evaluation item of an inspection subject using the structure image on which the displayed virtual image is superimposed, and records the evaluation result in an inspection information memory in association with the position of the inspection subject in the three-dimensional model.

A flexible tube insertion apparatus including a flexible tube to be inserted into an insertion target is provided. The apparatus includes a variable stiffness section disposed in the tube and configured to change a bending stiffness of the tube, a variable stiffness drive section configured to drive the variable stiffness section, a rotation sensor configured to detect rotation of the tube about a central axis, and an insertion shape sensor configured to detect a curved shape of the tube. A variable stiffness controller drives the drive section so that a bending stiffness of the variable stiffness section is increased based on information detected by the rotation sensor and detected by the insertion shape sensor, when the tube forms a loop and rotates about the axis.

Flexible tube insertion apparatus and flexible tube insertion method

A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section, a stiffness variable unit that changes a bending stiffness of the insertion section and a detection unit that detects an advance that is a movement toward a distal end of the insertion section and a retreat that is a movement toward a proximal end of the insertion section. A controller controls the stiffness variable unit to change the bending stiffness of the insertion section to a first bending stiffness when the detection unit has detected the advance of the insertion section, and that controls the stiffness variable unit to change the bending stiffness of the insertion section to a second bending stiffness higher than the first bending when the detection unit has detected the retreat of the insertion section.

An endoscope system includes an insertion section, a bending portion provided in the insertion section, including a distal side and a proximal side, and deformable into an arcuate shape by bending in at least one predetermined direction, a distal-side bending portion, a proximal-side bending portion, a first variable stiffness section provided in the distal-side bending portion and configured to change a stiffness of the distal-side bending portion, a second variable stiffness section provided in the proximal-side bending portion and configured to change a stiffness of the proximal-side bending portion, and a controller for performing control to make a stiffness of the first variable stiffness section higher than a stiffness of the second variable stiffness section.

A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes a flexible tube to be inserted into an insertion target body, a variable stiffness portion that changes a bending stiffness of the flexible tube, a state detection sensor that detects state information of the flexible tube. The apparatus also includes a shape calculator that calculates shape information regarding a shape of the flexible tube based on the state information, an external force calculator that calculates external force information including magnitude of an external force received by the flexible tube based on the state information, and a stiffness controller that controls the variable stiffness portion in accordance with the shape information so that the magnitude of the external force received by the flexible tube becomes smaller than a reference value.

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to computer aided rebar measurement and inspection systems. In some embodiments, the system may include a data acquisition system configured to obtain fine-level rebar measurements, images or videos of rebar structures, a 3D point cloud model generation system configured to generate a 3D point cloud model representation of the rebar structure from information acquired by the data acquisition system, a rebar detection system configured to detect rebar within the 3D point cloud model generated or the rebar images or videos of the rebar structures, a rebar measurement system to measure features of the rebar and rebar structures detected by the rebar detection system, and a discrepancy detection system configured to compare the measured features of the rebar structures detected by the rebar detection system with a 3D Building Information Model (BIM) of the rebar structures, and determine any discrepancies between them.

Computer aided rebar measurement and inspection system

A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section inserted into a tube and a detection unit that detects states of the insertion section. The flexible tube insertion apparatus includes one or more vibrators that are arranged in the insertion section, generate vibration, and vibrate the insertion section by the generated vibration and a controller that calculates a magnitude of an external force applied to the insertion section from the tube based on the states of the insertion section detected by the detection unit, computes a resonance frequency of the vibration relative to the magnitude of the external force, and controls the vibrators in such a manner that the vibrators vibrate at the resonance frequency.

Flexible tube insertion apparatus having vibration actuator for reducing insertion force of endoscope insertion member

This disclosure provides a product comprised of a collagen gel to which recombinant human Amelotin (AMTN) protein is added. This AMTN-collagen gel is applied to one side of a physiologically acceptable scaffold that has first been impregnated with AMTN-free collagen gel. The resulting two-layer collagen membrane (layer 1 comprised of scaffold surrounded by collagen gel; layer 2 comprised of collagen gel containing AMTN) is applied to a mineralized tissue surface such as dentin and bone with the collagen gel containing AMTN of layer 2 facing this mineral surface. Upon immersion in simulated body fluid (SBF), the presence of AMTN in layer 2 triggers the formation of hydroxyapatite mineral deposits that intimately connect with the existing mineral surface and thus provide physical attachment. A similar product is disclosed but in addition to AMTN, it contains the Odontogenic, Ameloblast-Associated (ODAM) protein as well with both proteins exhibiting a synergistic effect.

Device including biological agents for in vitro induction of biomineralization

An flexible tube insertion apparatus includes a tubular insertion section including a bending portion and a flexible tube portion, variable stiffness sections to cause a change in a level of a bending stiffness of the flexible tube portion, a variable stiffness control section that controls the change in the bending stiffness by the variable stiffness sections; and a time setting section that sets a time period. The variable stiffness control section causes the bending stiffness of the variable stiffness sections to change in such a manner that the relationship of levels between the bending stiffness of adjacent variable stiffness sections is switched at the set time period when the variable stiffness control section determines that the flexible tube portion is passing through a flexure of the subject.

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