Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110200242 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An ophthalmologic image display apparatus for displaying information about an eye includes an input unit configured to input a tomographic image of the eye, an acquisition unit configured to acquire diagnostic supporting information associated with positional information about the tomographic image of the eye, a processing unit configured to perform processing for assigning a voxel value to volume data constituting the tomographic image based on a reflection intensity value indicating the tomographic image and the diagnostic supporting information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image processed by the processing unit. | 08-18-2011 |
20110243408 | FUNDUS IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - One aspect of embodiments of the present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which specifies one of boundary positions of retina layers in a fundus image showing a retina tomosynthesis, sets a distance transfer function for converting the distance from the specified boundary position to a parameter expressing opacity such that the peak position of the opacity is set to a predetermined position in the retina, sets a luminance transfer function for converting a luminance value of the fundus image to the parameter expressing opacity, and generates a translucent display image by calculating the opacity of respective positions of the tomosynthesis using the distance transfer function and the luminance transfer function, and by volume rendering. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243415 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store tomographic images in relation to fundus of an examined eye; a detection unit configured to detect a boundary of retinal pigment epithelium and an inner limiting membrane from each of the images and to detect a part where the boundary is discontinuous; a determination unit configured to determine a surface of a sclera model for each of the images by use of the boundary and the inner limiting membrane; a generation unit configured to generate a sclera model including an optic papilla periphery by use of the surface of the sclera model and the part where the boundary is discontinuous; a combining unit configured to combine each of the images and the sclera model to generate a combined image; and a display unit configured to display the combined image generated by the combining unit, is provided. | 10-06-2011 |
20120076381 | MEDICAL SYSTEM - A medical system comprising a selection unit configured to select at least one of layers in a three-dimensional tomographic image of a retina, and a generation unit configured to generate an opacity function indicating an opacity of each of a plurality of voxels constituting the selected layer, based on a frequency distribution of luminance values of the plurality of voxels. | 03-29-2012 |
20130222368 | MESH GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A mesh generating apparatus comprises a first generating unit that generates a first mesh having grid cells for a region corresponding to an object in an image of the object, a first determining unit that determines distances among corresponding points which correspond to points on the grid cells on a boundary of the region based on a length of the boundary and on the number of points on the grid cells on an outer frame of the first mesh, a second determining unit that determines the corresponding points based on the distances and on a part of the points on the grid cells, the part being located on the boundary of the region, and a second generating unit that generates a second mesh from the first mesh based on the corresponding points and on the points on the grid cells, the second mesh corresponding to the region. | 08-29-2013 |
20140111514 | MEDICAL SYSTEM - A medical system comprising a selection unit configured to select at least one of layers in a three-dimensional tomographic image of a retina, and a generation unit configured to generate an opacity function indicating an opacity of each of a plurality of voxels constituting the selected layer, based on a frequency distribution of luminance values of the plurality of voxels. | 04-24-2014 |
20140233823 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An ophthalmologic image display apparatus for displaying information about an eye includes an input unit configured to input a tomographic image of the eye, an acquisition unit configured to acquire diagnostic supporting information associated with positional information about the tomographic image of the eye, a processing unit configured to perform processing for assigning a voxel value to volume data constituting the tomographic image based on a reflection intensity value indicating the tomographic image and the diagnostic supporting information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image processed by the processing unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20150070469 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A plurality of cross section images which can be included in the range of a specific error occurring when specifying a correspondence cross section in a three-dimensional medical image of an object corresponding to a cross section of interest of the object are acquired from the three-dimensional medical image. The acquired cross section images are displayed on a display screen. | 03-12-2015 |