Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment is installed in an examination room and includes an obtaining unit, a judging unit, and an output unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain patient information about a patient undergoing an image diagnosing process that uses the medical image diagnosis apparatus. The judging unit is configured to determine specifics of control related to disinfection, on the basis of the patient information. The output unit is configured to output the determined specifics of the control.

Abstract: An assistance apparatus for assisting creation of an interpretation report obtains a set of regions of interest, which are determined as regions that were observed, of medical image data of a subject that is displayed as an interpretation target, and a set of described regions, which are regions that correspond to description of an interpretation report about the medical image data of a subject. The assistance apparatus determines consistency between the set of regions of interest and the set of described regions, and lets a display unit display a result of the determination.

Abstract: The present invention has an objective to display information more suitable for searching for medical information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display, when a first medical information item included in a plurality of medical information items is associated with a second medical information item, an icon indicating that a medical information item related to the first medical information item is present, on a display unit in conjunction with a thumbnail of the first medical information item, wherein the display control unit performs, when the icon is selected, such control as to display a display information item indicating a relationship between the first medical information item and the second medical information item, on the display unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, an accepting unit, a second acquiring unit, and a display control unit. The first acquiring unit acquires a processed image, wherein the processed image is acquired by processing at least one medical image. The accepting unit accepts a display instruction for the processed image based on a user's operation input. The second acquiring unit acquires information regarding a type of the processing and the medical image used for the processing. The display control unit displays the processed image, instructed by the display instruction and the medical image used for the processing, in a medical image display region based on the information regarding the type of the processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit that selects a second image to be compared with a first image from a plurality of candidate images, a setting unit, an overlap range calculation unit, an evaluation value calculation unit, and a second selection unit. The setting unit sets a plurality of combinations including two or more candidate images from among the plurality of candidate images. The overlap range calculation unit calculates an overlap range between the first image and each of the plurality of combinations. The evaluation value calculation unit calculates an evaluation value of each of the plurality of combinations based on the calculated overlap range. The second selection unit selects at least one combination from the plurality of combinations based on the evaluation value. The first selection unit selects the two or more candidate images included in the selected combination as the second image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires history information of image processing using a plurality of medical images. The determination unit determines, using the acquired history information, whether image processing using a first medical image and a second medical image selected by an operator as an image pair to be used in the image processing has already been performed. The output unit outputs a notification in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: An image diagnosis assistance apparatus displays, on a display screen, a tomographic image obtained from a three-dimensional medical image, and detects a gaze position of a user on the display screen. The image diagnosis assistance apparatus determines an observed region in the tomographic image based on the detected gaze position, and identifies the observed region in the three-dimensional medical image based on the region determined to have been observed in the tomographic image.

Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted from at least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select as a display image a second tomographic image in the case where a second acquisition unit successfully acquires the second tomographic image or in the case where a correspondence relationship between a first tomographic image and the second tomographic image satisfies a predetermined condition, or select a notification image in a case other than the above-described cases, and a display unit configured to display the first tomographic image and the display image selected by the selection unit in parallel or in a superimposed manner.

Abstract: A user had to manually select a cross-sectional image indicating features of a finding and a cross-sectional image displayed in a report, from a three-dimensional medical image. Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a unit configured to acquire a target finding of a medical image; a unit configured to calculate an image feature quantity of a type associated in advance with the target finding, for each of a plurality of cross-sectional images of the medical image; and a unit configured to identify a cross-sectional image from the plurality of cross-sectional images based on the calculated image feature quantity. Operation of selecting a cross-sectional image by a doctor can be omitted, and the burden can be reduced.

Abstract: From a plurality of medical images in time phases, a target site is extracted t least one medical image, a reference point is set on each of a target-site side, and a periphery side of the target site which are on across from each other over an outline of the extracted target site, and movement information for the reference points is calculated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit that selects a second image to be compared with a first image from a plurality of candidate images, a setting unit, an overlap range calculation unit, an evaluation value calculation unit, and a second selection unit. The setting unit sets a plurality of combinations including two or more candidate images from among the plurality of candidate images. The overlap range calculation unit calculates an overlap range between the first image and each of the plurality of combinations. The evaluation value calculation unit calculates an evaluation value of each of the plurality of combinations based on the calculated overlap range. The second selection unit selects at least one combination from the plurality of combinations based on the evaluation value. The first selection unit selects the two or more candidate images included in the selected combination as the second image.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed to a medical image display apparatus for displaying a thumbnail image corresponding to medical image data. The medical image data can be displayed in a display area upon selection of the thumbnail image. A display method of the medical image data in the display area can be determined, based on a designated position in the thumbnail image when the thumbnail image is selected by a user. Medical image data is displayed in the display area, according to the determined display method.

Abstract: A display control apparatus for displaying medical image data generates a thumbnail for selecting medical image data, using a reduced image obtained from the medical image data. In the thumbnail, partial areas are set according to anatomical areas obtained from the medical image data. In response to an instruction to select the thumbnail that is displayed, the display control apparatus displays a medical image corresponding to the thumbnail. The display control unit determines a display content of the medical image that is to be displayed on the display unit, based on a designated position in the thumbnail in the instruction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a report acquisition unit adapted to acquire report information including a region of interest in a medical image and comment information associated with the region of interest, a related region acquisition unit adapted to acquire a region related to the region of interest in the medical image, a determination unit adapted to determine a display position of a display region of the comment information so as not to make the display region of the comment information overlap the related region, and a display control unit adapted to display the medical image including the comment information so that the comment information is displayed at the determined display position of the display region on a display unit.

Abstract: The present invention has an objective to display information more suitable for searching for medical information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display, when a first medical information item included in a plurality of medical information items is associated with a second medical information item, an icon indicating that a medical information item related to the first medical information item is present, on a display unit in conjunction with a thumbnail of the first medical information item, wherein the display control unit performs, when the icon is selected, such control as to display a display information item indicating a relationship between the first medical information item and the second medical information item, on the display unit.

Abstract: A user had to manually select a cross-sectional image indicating features of a finding and a cross-sectional image displayed in a report, from a three-dimensional medical image. Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a unit configured to acquire a target finding of a medical image; a unit configured to calculate an image feature quantity of a type associated in advance with the target finding, for each of a plurality of cross-sectional images of the medical image; and a unit configured to identify a cross-sectional image from the plurality of cross-sectional images based on the calculated image feature quantity. Operation of selecting a cross-sectional image by a doctor can be omitted, and the burden can be reduced.

Abstract: A user had to manually select a cross-sectional image indicating features of a finding and a cross-sectional image displayed in a report, from a three-dimensional medical image. Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a unit configured to acquire a target finding of a medical image; a unit configured to calculate an image feature quantity of a type associated in advance with the target finding, for each of a plurality of cross-sectional images of the medical image; and a unit configured to identify a cross-sectional image from the plurality of cross-sectional images based on the calculated image feature quantity. Operation of selecting a cross-sectional image by a doctor can be omitted, and the burden can be reduced.

Abstract: A medical image display apparatus which displays, in a display screen, a display image having undergone gray level transform of changing number of gray levels of a medical image, obtains a representative value of pixel values concerning a region of a block, in the medical image, which corresponds to each partial region in a region designated in the display image. The medical image display apparatus sets a specific region in the display screen so as to include the designated region, and superimposes/displays and arranges obtained representative values on the specific region in correspondence with the arrangement of the partial regions.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a user's instruction to change medical information to be displayed on a display unit, a second acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of medical information to be sequentially displayed on the display unit, a group generation unit that groups the acquired plurality of pieces of medical information based on the acquired user's instruction, a third acquisition unit configured to acquire representative information indicating the medical information contained in the group generated by the group generation unit, and an output unit configured to output the acquired representative information to the display unit.