Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090216124 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes means for transmitting/receiving ultrasonic waves to/from an object to be examined and capturing a dynamic image of the object. | 08-27-2009 |
20100022877 | ULTRASONOGRAPHIC DEVICE - An ultrasonographic device includes a template conversion unit ( | 01-28-2010 |
20110082371 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic, apparatusi in accordance with the invention includes: an image information obtaining section configured to obtain multiple medical images in which a living tissue of a subject to be tested is imaged; and an image recognition calculation section configured to obtain motion information of the living tissue from pixel values of medical images at different time phases of the obtained multiple medical images and classify the medical images into predetermined types based on the motion information. | 04-07-2011 |
20110178405 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including means that acquires a three-dimensional ultrasonic signal of an internal organ of an examinee, means that sets a direction of a two-dimensional standard cross-section of the internal organ; means that adjusts display parameter of an image of a site which an examinee intends to observe, means that generates a two-dimensional standard cross-sectional image from the three-dimensional ultrasonic signal on the basis of the set direction of the two-dimensional standard cross-section of the internal organ, means that generates an observation cross-sectional image and a rendering image from the three-dimensional ultrasonic signal on the basis of the display parameters of the adjusted image, and display means that combines and displays the two-dimensional standard cross-sectional image, the observation cross-sectional image and the rendering image. | 07-21-2011 |
20110301454 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a medical image display method for displaying a tomographic image obtained by scanning an image of a cross-section of an organ of an object and finding the volume of an inner cavity region surrounded by the inner wall surface of the inner cavity of the organ on the basis of the displayed tomographic image, comprising a step that segmentizes the inner cavity region into a first inner cavity region and a second inner cavity region, a step that calculates volume of the first inner cavity using the disk method, a step that calculates volume of the second inner cavity region using the pseudo disk method, a step that calculates the entire inner cavity volume by summing the calculated volumes of the first and the second inner cavity, and a step that displays the first and the second inner cavity volumes and/or the entire inner cavity volume. | 12-08-2011 |
20110313291 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, OPERATION METHOD OF MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A medical image processing device of the invention includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional image data including a moving organ; an image display unit that displays the three-dimensional image data as a three-dimensional image; an object-to-be-measured setting unit that sets a desired object to be measured on the three-dimensional image displayed on the image display unit; a diagnostic index calculating unit that calculates the amount of displacement of the three-dimensional image data in each time phase for the desired object to be measured and calculates a diagnostic index on the basis of the amount of displacement calculated in each time phase; and a control unit that performs control to display the diagnostic index on the image display unit. | 12-22-2011 |
20120014588 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIANOSTIC DEVICE, REGION-OF-INTERST SETTING METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - The medical image diagnosis device of the invention includes image generating means configured to obtain image data of a tissue of an object and generate an image of the tissue of the object based on the image data, calculation means configured to calculate at least one of brightness and motion vectors of plural measurement points of the generated image, input means configured to specify an observation region of the image, a database in which a characteristic amount of at least one of the brightness and the motion vectors of the measurement points in respective images of plural different observation regions is set and stored in advance, checking means configured to read the characteristic amount of the observation region that is specified through the input means from the database and check the characteristic amount with results of calculation performed on the generated image by the calculation means, and ROI setting means configured to set a region of interest in the generated image based on checked results of the checking means. | 01-19-2012 |
20120027276 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND VOLUME CALCULATING METHOD - A medical image diagnostic apparatus provided with an image acquisition unit configured to acquire in-vivo information about an object to be examined as a medical image, a display unit configured to display the medical image, a setting unit configured to set a target region of volume measurement in the medial image displayed on the display unit, a calculation unit configured to perform calculation to split the target region into a plurality of volume elements, calculate the moving distance of the vertices of the volume elements when the target region of the acquired medical image moves, calculate the volumes of the volume elements after the movement using the calculated moving distance of the vertices, totalizing the calculated volumes of the volume elements after the movement and using the total volume as the volume of the target region, and a control unit configured to display the volume of the target region on the display unit. | 02-02-2012 |
20120065499 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND REGION-OF-INTEREST SETTING METHOD THEREFORE - A medical image diagnosis device according to the present invention has a medical image acquiring unit that acquires a medical image, a three-dimensional image constructing unit that constructs a three-dimensional image containing a motional internal organ region in the medical image, a sectional image generator that generates a two-dimensional sectional image serving as a reference image from the three-dimensional image, a region dividing unit that divides the reference image into plural regions on the basis of a criterion for region division, and a region-of-interest setting unit that calculates motion states of the plural regions, specifies at least one region of the plural regions on the basis of the calculated motion states, and sets as a region of interest a region of the medical image in which the specified region is contained. | 03-15-2012 |
20120083698 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS MEASURING METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus provided with an imaging unit configured to obtain an ultrasonic image of a carotid artery portion of an object to be examined, a parting line calculation unit configured to set at least one threshold value and calculate a parting line for segmenting the ultrasonic image into multiple regions, an intima-media thickness calculation unit configured to specify a direction for searching the multiple regions, search an intima-media region in the specified direction based on the brightness, draw multiple curves based on the position acquired by the search and positional information on the carotid artery portion in the ultrasonic image, and calculate the intima-media thickness from the distance between the multiple curves. | 04-05-2012 |
20120130245 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND REGION-OF-INTEREST - Disclose is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which transmits/receives an ultrasonic wave to/from a region including a carotid artery of an object, images an ultrasonic image, and comprises a thickness measurement unit configured to measure the thickness of an intima-media complex from the ultrasonic image, the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus being provided with a region-of-interest setting unit configured to scan the ultrasonic image and set a region of interest including the intima-media complex on the ultrasonic image on the basis of the degree of concentration of contour slate points of the carotid artery, wherein the thickness measurement unit measures the thickness of the intima-media complex on the basis of boundaries within the set region of interest. | 05-24-2012 |
20120281895 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE CONTOUR EXTRACTION PROCESSING METHOD - A medical image diagnostic apparatus of the present invention includes: an image display unit that displays a medical image including a target part of an object; an input unit that inputs feature points of the target part; a contour position estimation unit that estimates a contour position of the target part to generate an initial contour; a contour extraction unit that extracts a contour along the shape of the target part using the feature points and the initial contour; and a control unit that displays a composite image, which is obtained by combining the extracted contour and the medical image, on the image display unit. | 11-08-2012 |
20120283567 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND MEASUREMENT-POINT TRACKING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus provided with a measurement position setting unit configured to set a region of interest in the cardiac muscle in the ultrasonic image displayed on the display unit, a tracking calculation unit configured to track the movement of the cardiac muscle at a plurality of measurement points in the region of interest, and a physical quantity calculating unit configured to calculate a specific physical quantity on the basis of the results of the tracking. The calculated specific physical quantity is displayed on the display unit. The tracking calculation unit tracks the measurement points using a plurality of first segmenting lines along the epicardium and the endocardium of the cardiac muscle and a plurality of second segmenting lines that are orthogonal to the second segmenting lines. | 11-08-2012 |
20130012835 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RE-INPUTTING MEASUREMENT VALUE OF MEDICAL IMAGE - Disclosed is a medical image diagnostic apparatus which is provided with: a measurement calculation unit configured to calculate measured values by used of multi-dimensional information relating to a target region in the medical image of an object to be examined; an image display unit configured to display the measured values and the medical image; a re-input unit for re-inputting one of the multi-dimensional information and the measured values in the medical image displayed on the image display unit; and a measurement recalculation unit configured to recalculate the other of the multi-dimensional information and the measured values, on the basis of the re-input one of the multi-dimensional information and the measured values. | 01-10-2013 |
20130158399 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING HEART FUNCTION TEST PERIOD - The present invention provides an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including a bio-signal analyzing section sequentially acquiring a bio-signal from a bio-signal acquiring section over a plurality of cycles to evaluate stability of a heart function in one cycle between particular signal waveforms of the bio-signal and one cycle between particular signal waveforms adjacent to the one cycle between the particular signal waveforms, selecting the one cycle between the particular signal waveforms and one cycle between the particular signal waveforms adjacent to the one cycle between the particular signal waveforms as a test period for the heart function based on the content of the evaluation, and associating the selected test period with a time phase of the bio-signal. | 06-20-2013 |
20140309530 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING ITEMS FOR INSPECTION - An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to the present invention includes: a storing section storing a plurality of items for inspection including ultrasonic imaging or measurement of an imaged ultrasonogram and an order thereof; a controlling section calculating, regarding an item set for inspection constituted of a next item for inspection which is an item for inspection subsequent to a current item for inspection which is currently being implemented out of the plurality of items for inspection, an implementation frequency at which the item set for inspection is implemented, for each next item for inspection; a displaying section displaying a candidate for the next item for inspection on the basis of the implementation frequency; and an inputting section inputting the next item for inspection from the candidate for the next item for inspection. | 10-16-2014 |