Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080267481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING RESULTS OF STRUCTURE RECOGNITION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A PROGRAM FOR CORRECTING RESULTS OF STRUCTURE RECOGNITION RECORDING THEREIN - To correct a region recognition result in each tomographic image easily. Causing a plurality of tomographic images representing a plurality of regions of a subject or a reconstructed image based on the images and results of recognition processing of the regions of the subject represented by the respective tomographic images, in which the positional relationship of the recognized regions between the tomographic images matches with the anatomical positional relationship of the regions, to be displayed on a screen, accepting input of correction information identifying a correction position which is a boundary of different regions, determining an image whose result of the recognition processing is incorrect and a correct region of the image based on the anatomical positional relationship and/or results of the recognition processing of images adjacent to the correction position, and the correction information, and correcting the result of the recognition processing of the image. | 10-30-2008 |
20090220135 | SYSTEM, SERVER, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR IMAGE TRANSFER - When an image group to be displayed and compared is transferred to a terminal during viewing and processing of an image in an image group on the terminal that enables viewing of a plurality of image groups, an image corresponding to the currently displayed image is promptly transferred and displayed. In response to determination of the image group to be displayed and compared with the image group currently displayed on the terminal, a server determines the image that belongs to the image group to be displayed and compared and corresponds to the image in the image group being displayed, and determines a range and order of transfer of images that are to be transferred and include the corresponding image in the determined image group. The server transfers the determined image group according to the range and order of transfer. | 09-03-2009 |
20090232378 | IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE ANALYSIS PROGRAM - Positional relationships are automatically determined with higher accuracy in a predetermined direction between three-dimensional images representing a subject including a periodic structure having periodicity in the predetermined direction, with respect to the periodic structure. A positional correspondence is provisionally determined in a predetermined direction between two three-dimensional images including a periodic structure having periodicity in the predetermined direction, based on a criterion wherein the periodic structure contributes less to the determination. The provisionally determined correspondence is then corrected so that a position in one of the three-dimensional images corresponding to a position of the other three-dimensional image in the predetermined direction can be corrected within a range near the position in the former three-dimensional image in the predetermined direction, according to a criterion wherein the periodic structure contributes more. | 09-17-2009 |
20110245651 | MEDICAL IMAGE PLAYBACK DEVICE AND METHOD, AS WELL AS PROGRAM - Time-series images of a heart and sound data representing heart sounds are obtained. The time-series images of the heart is temporally synchronized with the sound data representing the heart sounds, and the time-series images of the heart and the sound data representing the heart sounds synchronized with each other are played back. | 10-06-2011 |
20130083982 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A medical image processing device for extracting an endocardium of a left ventricle from 3D image data representing the left ventricle is provided. The device includes: a blood region extracting unit to extract a blood region in the left ventricle from the image data; a convex and concave points identifying unit to find a convex hull from sample points on a contour of the extracted blood region and identify convex points forming the convex hull and concave points, which are sample points other than the convex points; and an endocardium determining unit to deform the contour of the blood region by moving at least a part of the concave points outward from the blood region by an amount determined based on a positional relationship among each concave point and the convex points located around the concave point and determine a deformed contour of the blood region to be the endocardium. | 04-04-2013 |
20130179820 | MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The obtaining condition input user interface receives a gesture input while a subject appearance image (human body icon) is displayed, the endoscope condition identification unit recognizes an endoscope gesture representing an insertion path of an endoscope in the subject represented by the subject appearance image based on position information of the gesture and a position of the subject appearance image on the display surface and if, the endoscope gesture is recognized, identifies a medical information obtaining condition for obtaining medical information of an actual and/or a virtual endoscopic examination of the subject, the medical information obtaining unit selectively obtain medical information satisfying the identified medical information obtaining condition from the medical information database storing a plurality of sets of medical information, and the medical information display control unit displays the obtained medical information. | 07-11-2013 |
20130243285 | MEDICAL IMAGE ALIGNMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Generating, with respect to each of the three-dimensional image and the three-dimensional comparison image, a plurality of tomographic images orthogonal to a central axis of each vertebra of the subject along the central axis, calculating a first characteristic amount representing a profile in a direction orthogonal to the central axis at each point on the central axis based on the tomographic images, calculating a second characteristic amount representing a profile in a direction of the central axis at each point on the central axis based on the tomographic images, calculating a third characteristic amount representing regularity of disposition of each vertebra at each point on the central axis based on the calculated first and second characteristic amounts, and aligning positions of the third characteristic amount calculated from the three-dimensional image and the third characteristic amount calculated from the three-dimensional comparison image along the central axis. | 09-19-2013 |
20130279773 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A foreground statistic with respect to a distribution of image values in a foreground region and a background statistic with respect to a distribution of image values in a background region are calculated. Image values of a plurality of input images that are captured at different times are corrected based on the foreground statistics and the background statistics which are obtained by processing the input images. | 10-24-2013 |