Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090175519 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus has an obtaining unit configured to obtain a region from a medical image, and a generating unit configured to generate a display image by superimposing, on the basis of a position being in a schema image and corresponding to the region, an image of the region on a diagram representing a human body structure. | 07-09-2009 |
20100074488 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as the schematic view of the human body part are held. A captured image representing the interior of the body of a patient is acquired. Hierarchical structure information is acquired, which contains part information globally representing a part corresponding to a designated portion on the captured image and part information locally representing the part corresponding to the designated portion. A set including the part information contained in the hierarchical structure information is acquired. A schema image included in the acquired set is output. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082699 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - In order to provide a technology which allows efficient understanding of images of a disease locus and diagnosis supporting information for the images, an information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs object identification information for identifying an object; an acquiring unit which acquires one or more schemas related to the object and medical image data related to the schema, an identification unit which identifies a disease locus region in medical image data respectively related to each of the one or more schemas, a time-series schema generating unit which generates a time-series schema of the disease locus, a time-series image data generating unit which generates time-series image data of the disease locus, and a display output unit which synchronizes and outputs the time-series schema of the disease locus and the time-series image data of the disease locus. | 04-01-2010 |
20100189322 | DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a diagnostic supporting apparatus, a CPU inputs medical inspection data relating to a schema background image, and analyzes a user's operation performed on the medical inspection data. Then, the CPU performs processing for selecting a schema background image to be displayed from a plurality of schema background images stored in a storage unit, based on an analysis result of the operation performed on the medical inspection data. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189323 | COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A computer-aided diagnosis apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of schema background images and can support a diagnosis to be performed based on at least one of the schema background images. The computer-aided diagnosis apparatus includes an input unit configured to input medical inspection data of an inspection object, an analysis unit configured to analyze the medical inspection data, a selection unit configured to select a schema background image from the plurality of schema background images stored in the storage unit based on an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit, and an output unit configured to output the schema background image selected by the selection unit. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195050 | IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING TOMOGRAM OF FUNDUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging control apparatus which controls an imaging unit configured to capture a tomogram of the fundus of a target eye includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information representing the direction of a fundus movement of the target eye, an analysis unit configured to analyze the direction of the fundus movement based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to control the imaging unit so as to align the direction of imaging of the imaging unit with the direction of the fundus movement based on the analysis result of the analysis unit. | 08-05-2010 |
20100250275 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A diagnosis support system which performs computer processing of data obtained from an object to be examined and presents the obtained diagnostic information is disclosed. The diagnosis support apparatus includes a diagnosis support processing unit which processes data obtained from the object to extract diagnosis support information, a storage unit which stores the examination history of the object, and a changing unit which changes a processing method in the diagnosis support processing unit in accordance with the examination history of the object stored in the storage unit. In at least one embodiment, diagnosis processing is executed to obtain medical diagnostic information by performing computer processing of data obtained from the object, and the processing method for diagnosis support processing is changed in accordance with the examination history of the object. | 09-30-2010 |
20110007957 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An imaging apparatus that captures a tomographic image of a subject includes: a first tomographic image acquisition unit to acquire a first tomographic image of the subject, a tomographic image analysis unit to analyze the first tomographic image, an image capturing parameter setting unit to set an image capturing parameter for capturing a second tomographic image of the subject according to a result of analysis by the tomographic image analysis unit, a second tomographic image acquisition unit to acquire the second tomographic image captured according to the image capturing parameter set by the image capturing parameter setting unit, and a correction unit to correct positional deviation of the first tomographic image by using the second tomographic image. | 01-13-2011 |
20110090458 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CAPTURING TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A tomographic image capturing apparatus includes a fixation lamp configured to guide a line of sight of a subject's eye, and a control unit configured to control a projection position of measuring light according to a predetermined position on a fundus of the subject's eye and a projection position of the fixation lamp. | 04-21-2011 |
20110170753 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - In order to provide a technology which allows efficient understanding of images of a disease locus and diagnosis supporting information for the images, an information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs object identification information for identifying an object; an acquiring unit which acquires one or more schemas related to the object and medical image data related to the schema, an identification unit which identifies a disease locus region in medical image data respectively related to each of the one or more schemas, a time-series schema generating unit which generates a time-series schema of the disease locus, a time-series image data generating unit which generates time-series image data of the disease locus, and a display output unit which synchronizes and outputs the time-series schema of the disease locus and the time-series image data of the disease locus. | 07-14-2011 |
20120044499 | IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An OCT apparatus that photographs with a plurality of measuring beams concurrently has a mechanism for adjusting the optical path length of a reference beam for each measuring beam. Accordingly, when tomographic images photographed in this manner are displayed side by side, because the depth of photographing varies from one tomographic image to another, it is difficult for an operator to comprehend the positional relation between the photographed images. In displaying tomographic images acquired with a plurality of measuring beams, the display position of each tomographic image is adjusted based on the changed optical path length of a reference beam of the measuring beam used for the image. The tomographic images are thus aligned in height and are presented in a manner that is easy for the operator to comprehend the positional relation between the photographed images. | 02-23-2012 |
20120075640 | TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND TOMOGRAM CORRECTION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention realizes accurate positional offset correction between a plurality of tomograms captured by using a tomography apparatus. The invention is a tomography apparatus which corrects the positional offsets between a plurality of two-dimensional tomograms constituting a three-dimensional tomogram. This apparatus includes a tomogram analysis unit ( | 03-29-2012 |
20120092617 | EYEGROUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A tomographic-image pickup unit is controlled so as to capture a tomographic image in response to a signal input from a signal input unit. Then, a display unit is controlled so as to display the captured. tomographic image. An eyeground-image pickup unit is controlled so as to capture a two-dimensional image in response to a signal input from the signal input unit while the tomographic image. is displayed on the display unit. Therewith, the user can more easily perform imaging, and the time load on the subject is reduced. | 04-19-2012 |
20120140177 | IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING TOMOGRAM OF FUNDUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging control apparatus which controls an imaging unit configured to capture a tomogram of the fundus of a target eye includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information representing the direction of a fundus movement of the target eye, an analysis unit configured to analyze the direction of the fundus movement based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to control the imaging unit so as to align the direction of imaging of the imaging unit with the direction of the fundus movement based on the analysis result of the analysis unit. | 06-07-2012 |
20120249952 | CONTROL APPARATUS, OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS, SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image of an anterior segment of a subject's eye captured by an imaging unit, and a control unit configured to output, based on an operation signal output from a mouse according to an operation on the mouse when an index indicating an arbitrary position on the display unit is located on the image of the anterior segment, a control signal indicating a change amount in an optical axis direction of the imaging unit of a focal position of the image of the anterior segment relative to the imaging unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20130002711 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, OCT IMAGING APPARATUS, TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus capable of acquiring OCT tomographic images that can be captured by an OCT imaging apparatus configured to scan a target to be captured with low-coherence light along a predetermined main scanning line. The image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of OCT tomographic images of the target to be captured along a plurality of main scanning lines that are different in direction, and a display control unit configured to display the plurality of OCT tomographic images on a display screen using a layout that can express differences in the direction of each main scanning line so as to reflect a relative relationship between respective main scanning line directions with respect to the target to be captured in respective OCT tomographic images. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003018 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus according to the present invention can cause a display unit to display a scanning range of each of a plurality of measurement light beams in an intersection image (an image in a direction intersecting a direction in which an inspection object is irradiated with the plurality of measurement light beams) of the inspection object. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003077 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A tomographic imaging apparatus configured to acquire a tomographic image or a cross-sectional image of an object to be examined from signals of a plurality of interfering beams obtained by emitting a plurality of measuring beams to the object to be examined and causing return beams of the measuring beams to interfere with reference beams includes a sensor configured to detect the plurality of interfering beams to acquire signals of the plurality of interfering beams, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an optical characteristic in the tomographic imaging apparatus corresponding to each of the plurality of interfering beams, and a generation unit configured to generate a tomographic image or a cross-sectional image of the object to be examined based on the signals of the plurality of interfering beams and the optical characteristic. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010262 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus capturing optical coherence tomographic images of a test object based on a plurality of combined light beams that are obtained by combining a plurality of return light beams from the test object irradiated with a plurality of measurement light beams and a plurality of reference light beams respectively corresponding to the plurality of measurement light beams, the apparatus including: an instruction unit configured to give instructions about amounts of changes in respective optical path length differences between the plurality of reference beams and the plurality of return light beams; and a change unit configured to change the optical path length differences based on the amounts of changes instructed by the instruction unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130070987 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - In order to provide a technology which allows efficient understanding of images of a disease locus and diagnosis supporting information for the images, an information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs object identification information for identifying an object; an acquiring unit which acquires one or more schemas related to the object and medical image data related to the schema, an identification unit which identifies a disease locus region in medical image data respectively related to each of the one or more schemas, a time-series schema generating unit which generates a time-series schema of the disease locus, a time-series image data generating unit which generates time-series image data of the disease locus, and a display output unit which synchronizes and outputs the time-series schema of the disease locus and the time-series image data of the disease locus. | 03-21-2013 |
20130188141 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To ensure display of a region of interest on a fundus image and a tomographic image of an eye to be inspected in a correspondence manner, an apparatus for processing images of an eye to be inspected includes: a unit that acquires a fundus image of an eye to be inspected; a unit that designates an arbitrary point on the fundus image; a unit that acquires a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected; a unit that calculates a point on the tomographic image corresponding to the arbitrary point; and a unit that converts a coordinate system for displaying the tomographic image and the fundus image in association with each other on the basis of positions of the arbitrary point and the corresponding point. | 07-25-2013 |
20130194094 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFORE, AND RECORDING PROGRAM EXECUTING THE METHOD - When an anterior segment photographing mode is selected, ease of operation by an inspector is improved. An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an area changing unit for changing a movement area of an optical unit including an optical path of measuring light, when an anterior segment photographing mode for photographing an anterior segment of an eye to be inspected is selected, to be different from a movement area when a mode other than the anterior segment photographing mode is selected. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194541 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to change a size of an imaging area of a tomographic image of an object to be inspected easily, provided is an optical tomographic apparatus for acquiring a tomographic image of an object to be inspected, the optical tomographic apparatus including a control unit for controlling a measuring light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of measuring light in a case where the size of the imaging area of the tomographic image is changed, and for controlling a movable unit for moving a focus lens for focusing the measuring light to the object to be inspected along an optical path to move the focus lens in association with the change in the optical path length of the measuring light. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194542 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to change a size of an imaging area of a tomographic image of an object to be inspected easily, provided is an optical tomographic apparatus for acquiring a tomographic image of an object to be inspected, the optical tomographic apparatus including a control unit for controlling a measuring light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of measuring light in a case where the size of the imaging area of the tomographic image is changed, and for controlling a reference light path length changing unit to change an optical path length of reference light in association with the change in the optical path length of the measuring light. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195337 | OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An ophthalmic apparatus comprises an imaging unit which images a fundus of an eye to be examined; a calculation unit which calculates a displacement of an imaging position of the imaging unit between fundus images captured by the imaging unit; and a display control unit which causes a display unit to display a fundus image captured by the imaging unit and a region of interest so as to locate the region of interest at a predetermined position on the fundus image based on the displacement calculated by the calculation unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20140063447 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing apparatus, comprising: a tomographic image acquiring unit for acquiring a tomographic image of a retina; an instruction unit for instructing for a change in the positions of display forms indicating a plurality of regions in one of the display forms indicating a plurality of layer boundaries of a retina; and a display control unit for causing the display unit to display respective display forms indicating the plurality of layer boundaries in positions corresponding to the plurality of layer boundaries in the tomographic image in an overlapped state, and in a case of instructing for the change in the position of at least one of display forms, for causing the display unit to display the display form instructed with the display form different from other display forms. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063451 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - For appropriately obtaining the tomographic image and the layer thickness map are provided in a short period of time regardless of involuntary eye movement, when the tomographic image is to be obtained in a specific scan pattern, a 3D tomographic image is first obtained by 3D scan, and then a tomographic image of a desired part is extracted from the image in accordance with the specific scan pattern. Further, based on the obtained 3D tomographic image, a sector for layer thickness map display, a main scanning line, and a sub-scanning line, which are displayed on a fundus image, are set movable, and tomographic images taken along both the scanning lines after the movement are obtained. The sector having a center corresponding to the intersection between those scanning lines and the layer thickness map are recalculated and displayed so as to follow the intersection. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063453 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A diagnosis support apparatus comprises an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of examination data items having different examination dates, a setting unit that sets an extraction condition for examination data items, an extracting unit that extracts, from the plurality of acquired examination data items, examination data items corresponding to the set extraction condition, and a displaying unit that arranges and displays the extracted examination data items, wherein the setting unit sets the extraction condition based on an interval between examination dates of examination data items. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068513 | INTERACTIVE CONTROL APPARATUS - An interactive control apparatus for controlling an OCT imaging apparatus instructs, in response to detection of a first instruction signal from a pointer device, a specific action to the OCT imaging apparatus according to selected icon displayed on a display unit, and instructs, in response to detection of a second instruction signal from the pointer device, a specific action to the OCT imaging apparatus according to a preparation status of the OCT imaging apparatus when the second instruction signal is detected. | 03-06-2014 |
20140211155 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical coherence tomographic imaging apparatus includes a movement amount acquisition unit configured to acquire the amount of subject's eye movement based on a plurality of images of the subject's eye acquired at different times, a determination unit configured to determine whether the amount of subject's eye movement before a scan by the scanning unit exceeds a threshold value, and a control unit configured to, in a case the amount of subject's eye movement before the scan is equal to or smaller than the threshold value, control the scanning unit to perform scanning position correction between a scan and the next scan based on the amount of movement. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211156 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a measurement light optical path length changing unit configured to change an optical path length of measurement light. In a case where any one of a plurality of imaging regions of an object (for example, a region of an anterior eye of a subject's eye and a region of a fundus of the subject's eye) is selected, the optical tomographic imaging apparatus can control the measurement light optical path length changing unit according to a size of an imaging range of a tomographic image corresponding to the selected imaging region. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211158 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction on a size of an imaging range of a tomographic image, and a control unit configured to control a measurement light optical path length changing unit to perform alignment in a depth direction with respect an object after the instruction by the instruction unit, and change an optical path length of measurement light by a distance corresponding to a change of the size on which the instruction is issued. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211159 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a control unit configured to, in a case where an instruction to narrow an imaging range of a tomographic image is issued, control a measurement light optical path length changing unit to reduce an optical path length of measurement light and make a changing speed of the optical path length of the measurement light lower than in a case where an instruction to widen the imaging range is issued. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211160 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a fundus image of a subject's eye, a displacement acquisition unit configured to acquire the displacement of an imaging position between the fundus images acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to display on a display unit the fundus image acquired by the acquisition unit and a region of interest which is an area where a tomogram of the fundus is captured, in which the display control unit performs display control to display the fundus image and the region of interest on the display unit based on the displacement acquired by the displacement acquisition unit so that the region of interest is positioned at a predetermined position of the fundus image, and stops the display control based on the position of the subject's eye. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211162 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an imaging unit for imaging the fundus image of a subject's eye, a displacement acquisition unit for acquiring the displacement of an imaging position by the imaging unit between fundus images captured by the imaging unit, and a display control unit for displaying the fundus image captured by the imaging unit and a region of interest on the display unit so that the region of interest is positioned at a predetermined position of the fundus image based on the displacement acquired by the displacement acquisition unit and displaying the region of interest on the display unit by changing a size of the region of interest according to an range where the fundus image is captured. | 07-31-2014 |
20140327878 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - In an eye fundus surface expansion observation screen, a surface moving image that is a moving image showing the surface of a predetermined region in a subject's eye is enlarged and displayed. In an eye fundus tomography expansion confirmation screen, a tomographic image showing the tomography of the subject's eye, which corresponds to a position selected from the surface moving image, is enlarged and displayed. | 11-06-2014 |