Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100054395 | X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An X-ray computer tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, a two-dimensional array type X-ray detector, a rotating mechanism, a pair of collimators, a collimator moving mechanism which separately moves the pair of collimators in a direction almost parallel to a rotation axis, a reconstruction processing unit which reconstructs image data in a reconstruction range, and a collimator control unit. The collimator control unit controls the position of each collimator in accordance with the distance between an X-ray central plane corresponding to a cone angle 0° and an end face of the reconstruction range. The collimator moving mechanism moves each of the pair of collimators in the range from the outermost position corresponding to the maximum cone angle to the innermost position offset from a position corresponding to a cone angle of nearly 0° to the opposite side. | 03-04-2010 |
20110280366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND X-RAY CT SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus and X-ray CT system, having a tracheal bifurcation area extraction part, for extracting the tracheal bifurcation area from an X-ray image and a tracheal bifurcation identification part, for identifying the tracheal bifurcation from the tracheal bifurcation area. | 11-17-2011 |
20120099776 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - It is a subject to reduce the number of processing steps and shorten the processing time when specifying a branch position in a tubular structure, mainly the bronchus or blood vessel. A apparatus includes a storage unit which stores volume data concerning a 3D region of a subject as a target. A tomogram generation unit generates the data of slice images respectively corresponding to slices almost perpendicular to a predetermined reference axis from volume data files. A region extraction unit extracts regions associated with a target site from the plurality of slice images by using threshold processing. A position specifying unit specifies a position on the reference axis, wherein the number of extracted regions changes at the position. | 04-26-2012 |
20120313943 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first image creating unit, a second image creating unit, and a display controller. The first image creating unit creates a first image by performing a rendering processing on volume data which is three-dimensional medical image data. The second image creating unit creates a second image having a different stereoscopic effect from the first image by performing the rendering processing on the volume data. The display controller that controls to display the first image and the second image in a designated region that is designated in a display surface of a display unit and a background region other than the designated region, respectively. | 12-13-2012 |
20120320167 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a display unit capable of displaying stereoscopic images by displaying a group of parallax images and a display control unit. The display control unit displays an operation screen for receiving operations on medical image data on the display unit, displays selection information for selecting medical image data on the operation screen, and controls whether the selection information will be displayed as a stereoscopic image or a planar image depending on the content of medical image data selected by the selection information. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327080 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment is an image processing system having a terminal device including a display unit that displays a medical image. The image processing system includes an acquiring unit and a display controller. The acquiring unit acquires a position of the terminal device relative to a predetermined target. The display controller causes the display unit to display a medical image in accordance with the relative position of the terminal device relative to the target acquired by the acquiring unit. | 12-27-2012 |
20130021335 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - In an image processing system according to an embodiment, an image processing device in the embodiment includes a receiving unit, a flat image generator, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives setting of a region of interest on parallax images of a subject that are displayed stereoscopically. The flat image generator generates a flat image of a cut surface of the subject that is generated by cutting the subject along a plane corresponding to the region of interest received by the receiving unit based on volume data of the subject stored in a predetermined storage device. The output unit outputs the flat image generated by the flat image generator. | 01-24-2013 |
20130216019 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - The collecting part of the X-ray CT apparatus according to the embodiment scans a subject using X-rays and collects data. The memory prerecords a basic image including the designated area of the subject. The controller instructs the collector to repeatedly perform the first scan, using the conditions for the first scan, of the designated area of the subject to who contrast agent has been administered. The controller then receives the specified trigger input, and instructs the second scan of the subject using the conditions for the second scan. The image generator repeatedly produces the first medical image based on the data collected when the first scan is being performed, and produces a subtraction image from the first medical image and the basic image. The image generator then produces the second medical image based on the data collected when the second scan is being performed. | 08-22-2013 |
20140071132 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display apparatus, a rendering processor, and a display controller. The stereoscopic display apparatus displays a stereoscopic image enabled for a stereoscopic vision using a plurality of parallax images. The rendering processor generates a plurality of parallax images by applying a rendering process to volume data that is three-dimensional medical image data from a plurality of viewpoint positions having different relative positions with respect to the volume data. The display controller causes the stereoscopic display apparatus to display a graphic image that is an image of a given graphic indicating a depth-direction position of a cursor that is operable by a given input unit in a three-dimensional stereoscopic image space in which a stereoscopic image is displayed, together with the parallax images. | 03-13-2014 |
20140321603 | X-RAY CT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An X-ray CT apparatus includes an image generating unit, a discrimination unit, a monochromatic X-ray image generating unit, a combined-image generating unit and a display unit. The image generating unit generates a plurality of reference material images corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reference materials on a basis of pre-reconstruction data of multi-energy obtained by scanning a subject. The discrimination unit discriminates each of a plurality of materials contained in an imaging region of the subject on a basis of the plurality of reference material images. The monochromatic X-ray image generating unit generates a monochromatic X-ray image at energy determined by each of the plurality of discriminated materials. The combined-image generating unit combines a plurality of monochromatic X-ray images corresponding to the plurality of materials and to generate a combined image. The display unit displays the combined image on a display device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341426 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a slice image generating unit, a region extracting unit and a tubular structure extracting unit. The storage unit stores a volume image of a three-dimensional region of a subject. The slice image generating unit generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to a plurality of slices each substantially perpendicular to a predetermined reference axis from the volume image. The region extracting unit extracts a target region from the plurality of slice images. The tubular structure extracting unit detects an end point from the extracted region, and extracts a tubular structure based on the end point. | 11-20-2014 |