Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080303818 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - With the present invention, using the schematic depiction of the tubular tissue in which the run path of the tubular tissue is adjusted so that the tubular tissues may not overlap, the information of the tubular tissue acquired from the volume image (three-dimensional image) is mapped onto this schematic depiction and displayed on the display device, whereby it is possible for the user to confirm all the information of the tubular tissue at a glance without need of performing an operation of rotating the displayed image in grasping the overall image of the tubular image. | 12-11-2008 |
20090080692 | SIZE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY UNIT, COMPUTER-READABLE SIZE MEASUREMENT PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A size measurement apparatus comprises a designation section that designates parts in images of two or more medical images acquired through image taking for a subject; a first measurement section that measures a size of an image on a part designated by the designation section, of the medical image, as to a measurement direction associated with a geometry of the image; and a second measurement section that measures a size of a common measurement direction common to two or more medical images, the common measurement direction being determined in accordance with the measurement direction in the first measurement section. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080734 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM - A region of interest is set by region of interest setting means in each of medical images obtained in chronological order. Similar case search means searches for a case information set including a case image having a region of similar pictorial characteristics to each of the regions of interest. When the corresponding case information set has been extracted through the search, case information display means displays test result information sets including not only the case images of similar pictorial characteristics but also all case images, test purposes, findings, and the like in the case information sets in chronological order of tests. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080742 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display device includes: an image acquiring section that acquires sets of cross-sectional images of a subject captured at different image capturing positions arranged in a predetermined direction with respect to the subject; and a target site setting section that sets a target site on a cross-sectional image of one of the cross-sectional image sets acquired by the image acquiring section. The device further includes: a cross-sectional image search section that detects a cross-sectional image including a site corresponding to the target site from a plurality of cross-sectional images forming another one of the cross-sectional image sets excluding the cross-sectional image set having the target site set therein by the target site setting section; and an image display section that displays the cross-sectional image detected by the cross-sectional image search section. | 03-26-2009 |
20090087047 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display device has a point setting section for setting a point for each of multiple medical images representing a subject; a size determining section that determines a common size that fits for each image shown at the point set by the point setting section in each of the multiple medical images such that each image can be displayed within a display area of the common size; and a displaying section that displays the image in the display area of the common size. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087059 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus and an image display program includes image acquiring section which acquires cross-section image groups which include cross-section images on cut positions arranged in a predetermined direction of a subject, a place setting section which sets places on the cross-section images in the cross-section image groups, an image group extracting section which extracts a series of image groups which continue along the cross-section images and include the image on the places from the cross-section image groups, a cut position calculating section which calculates cut positions whose positional feature in the respective image groups is common among the image groups, on the image groups, and an image display section which arranges to display cross-section images in the cross-section image groups. | 04-02-2009 |
20090180677 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR MEASURING SIZES OF TUMOR REGIONS - A tumor region is determined within a three dimensional medical image. A long axis and a short axis of the determined tumor region are designated. The lengths of the designated long axis and the designated short axis are measured. The measured lengths of the long axis and the short axis are displayed. | 07-16-2009 |
20090257550 | Slice image display apparatus, method and recording-medium having stored therein program - A shadow area in a lung-field area of a subject is detected from tomographic images constituting a three-dimensional image representing the subject. A hilum-of-lung area in the lung-field area of the subject is detected from the tomographic images. Further, a slice image that passes through a first point that is a predetermined point in the detected shadow area, a second point that is a predetermined point in the detected hilum-of-lung area, and an arbitrary point that has been set in advance is generated. The generated slice image is displayed. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262998 | Image Display Apparatus, Image Display Control Method, and Computer Readable Medium Having an Image Display Control Program Recorded Therein - Specification is received regarding which structure identifying information, each corresponding to an anatomical structure, is specified as display target structure identifying information to be displayed with a display target image when displaying the display target image, in which the positions of each pixel correspond to positions within an original image. The position of the anatomical structure identified by the structure identifying information is specified, based on structure information, in which structure identifying information that identifies anatomical structures and structure position information that represents the positions of the anatomical structures within the original image are correlated, and the correspondence of positions between the original image and the display target image. The display target structure identifying information is displayed with the display target image such that a user can recognize that the anatomical structure identified by the display target structure identifying information is displayed at the specified position. | 10-22-2009 |
20090310843 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device that includes: a region-of-interest setting section that sets regions-of-interest respectively for multiple medical images representing a photographed subject; a difference image creating section that creates a difference image representing a difference between images of the regions-of-interest set by the region-of-interest setting section; and an image displaying section that displays the difference image as well as the images arranged side by side. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310883 | Image processing apparatus, method, and program - A shadow region extraction method capable of extracting a shadow region from contrast enhanced three-dimensional images obtained at different time points in an improved manner. The method includes the steps of detecting a first shadow region from a contrast enhanced two-dimensional image constituting a contrast enhanced three-dimensional image obtained at a first time point among a plurality of contrast enhanced three-dimensional images of a subject obtained at different time points, detecting, by the use of position information of a point in the first shadow region, a second shadow region corresponding to the first shadow region from a contrast enhanced two-dimensional image constituting a contrast enhanced three-dimensional image obtained at a second time point different from the first time point, and displaying the first shadow region and the second shadow region. | 12-17-2009 |
20100119129 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program - Regions outside the surfaces of subject's bodies being emphasized is prevented when generating pseudo three dimensional medical images. An image processing apparatus is equipped with: an image obtaining section, for obtaining a plurality of medical images that represent transverse sections of a subject, which has been imaged in advance; a region classifying section, for classifying regions within each of the plurality of medical images as being one of a subject region that represents the interior of the surface of the subject's body, and a non subject region that represents the exterior of the surface of the subject's body; and a pseudo three dimensional medical image generating section, for generating a pseudo three dimensional medical image by executing an intensity projection method based on image information that represents the plurality of regions which are classified as being subject regions. | 05-13-2010 |
20100150418 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program - An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining section for obtaining medical images that represent transverse cross sections of a subject, and a division line setting section, for setting division lines within each medical image that divide subject regions representing the subject front to back, such that thoracic bones in the front to back direction of the projection direction of the subject are not displayed in an overlapping manner within the pseudo three dimensional images. A pseudo three dimensional medical image generating section generates a first pseudo three dimensional medical image based image data representing subject regions toward first sides of the division lines within the medical images, and generates a second pseudo three dimensional medical image based on image data representing subject regions toward second sides of the division lines within the medical images, by executing intensity projection methods. | 06-17-2010 |
20110074785 | PROJECTION IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A method for generating a projection image from three-dimensional image data, including the steps of determining first three-dimensional image data to be projected from the three-dimensional image data, generating a first projection image by projecting the first three-dimensional image data in a first projection direction by maximum intensity projection or minimum intensity projection, specifying a first coordinate position in the first projection image, determining second three-dimensional image data to be projected from the three-dimensional image data, generating a second projection image by projecting the second three-dimensional image data in a second projection direction different from the first projection direction, and displaying a second coordinate position, in the second projection image, obtained by projecting a first voxel in the three-dimensional image data, which corresponds to the pixel at the first coordinate position in the first projection image, onto the second projection image from the second projection direction. | 03-31-2011 |
20110194744 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A medical image display apparatus includes an image database for recording a three-dimensional standard image of a model subject, a three-dimensional anatomical image corresponding to the three-dimensional standard image, and anatomical information on living tissue names, an image acquirer for acquiring a three-dimensional medical image of an examinee, a medical tomographic image identifier for identifying a medical tomographic image in the three-dimensional medical image based on a user's instruction, a standard tomographic image identifier for identifying a standard tomographic image in the three-dimensional standard image, which corresponds to the medical tomographic image, an anatomical tomographic image identifier for identifying an anatomical tomographic image in the three-dimensional anatomical image, which corresponds to the standard tomographic image, and a display controller for displaying the medical tomographic image and the anatomical tomographic image on a display unit, while displaying the living tissue names over the anatomical tomographic image based on the anatomical information. | 08-11-2011 |
20120321155 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR MEASURING SIZES OF TUMOR REGIONS - A tumor region is determined within a three dimensional medical image. A long axis and a short axis of the determined tumor region are designated. The lengths of the designated long axis and the designated short axis are measured. The measured lengths of the long axis and the short axis are displayed. | 12-20-2012 |