Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Takai

Hiroshi Takai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11965948
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Yamashita, Kazuto Nakabayashi, Hitoshi Kanazawa, Kazuya Okamoto, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyuki Konuma, Kensuke Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20230384077
    Abstract: A carrier measuring device includes a rotary table, a table drive motor, an upper thickness sensor, a lower thickness sensor and a slide unit. The rotary table includes a carrier receiver configured to horizontally house a carrier formed with a hole in which a semiconductor wafer is held, the hole being eccentric with respect to the carrier. The table drive motor rotates the rotary table around a center axis thereof as a rotation axis. The upper thickness sensor and the lower thickness sensor are positioned above and below the carrier, respectively, and measure a thickness of the carrier in a non-contact manner. The slide unit slides the rotary table in a horizontal direction. The carrier receiver is formed to be capable of housing the carrier in a manner that a center of the hole coincides with a center of the rotary table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAI, Takeshi KUROIWA, Ryosuke KIDO
  • Patent number: 11815581
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Shinoda, Kazuto Nakabayashi, Hitoshi Kanazawa, Kazuya Okamoto, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyuki Konuma, Yuichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20230260088
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates noise intensity from first data acquired during a first scan. The processing circuitry calculates a denoising intensity used for a denoising process based on the noise intensity and the difference between an imaging condition for the first scan and an imaging condition for a second scan, the denoising process being applied to second data obtained by the second scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAI, Kensuke SHINODA, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Masahito NAMBU
  • Patent number: 11669938
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates noise intensity from first data acquired during a first scan. The processing circuitry calculates a denoising intensity used for a denoising process based on the noise intensity and the difference between an imaging condition for the first scan and an imaging condition for a second scan, the denoising process being applied to second data obtained by the second scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takai, Kensuke Shinoda, Nobuyuki Konuma, Masahito Nambu
  • Publication number: 20230116931
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi YAMASHITA, Kazuto NAKABAYASHI, Hitoshi KANAZAWA, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Kensuke SHINODA
  • Patent number: 11536790
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Yamashita, Kazuto Nakabayashi, Hitoshi Kanazawa, Kazuya Okamoto, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyuki Konuma, Kensuke Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20220260659
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke SHINODA, Kazuto NAKABAYASHI, Hitoshi KANAZAWA, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Yuichi YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11415656
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Shinoda, Kazuto Nakabayashi, Hitoshi Kanazawa, Kazuya Okamoto, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyuki Konuma, Yuichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11138769
    Abstract: An image reconstruction method according to an embodiment includes: collecting first k-space data at a first time and second k-space data having an undersampled pattern different from an undersampled pattern of the first k-space data at a second time different from the first time; generating intermediate data by converting data including the first k-space data and the second k-space data; generating, by inversely converting the intermediate data, third k-space data and fourth k-space data that correspond to the first k-space data and the second k-space data, respectively, and in each of which at least part of a region undersampled through the corresponding undersampled pattern is filled; and generating a magnetic resonance image at a time different from any of the first time and the second time by converting k-space data obtained by combining at least part of the third k-space data and at least part of the fourth k-space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagashima, Hiroshi Takai
  • Patent number: 11112474
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first resonance frequency distribution of a first tissue and a second resonance frequency distribution of a second tissue which is different from the first tissue. The processing circuitry calculates a center frequency of a frequency-selective pulse that suppresses or emphasizes either one of the first tissue and the second tissue in accordance with the first and second resonance frequency distributions. The processing circuitry collects a magnetic resonance signal after the frequency-selective pulse is applied at the calculated center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Naho Imamura, Takahiro Ohmure, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyasu Ichinose, Yoshimori Kassai
  • Patent number: 11035922
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates a static magnetic field correction amount based on a static magnetic field distribution of a first imaging range narrower than a second imaging range. The processing circuitry collects a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the second imaging range under a static magnetic field which is corrected based on the static magnetic field correction amount. The processing circuitry corrects distortion of the collected MR image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Naho Imamura, Takahiro Ohmure, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyasu Ichinose, Yoshimori Kassai
  • Patent number: 10969452
    Abstract: An MRI apparatus includes imaging control circuitry that performs shimming imaging for collecting a first MR signal, and multi-slice imaging for collecting a second MR signal along with radiation of a non-region-selective prepulse, and processing circuitry that generates static magnetic field distributions of the slices, determines a first center frequency of an RF pulse corresponding to each slice and a second center frequency of the prepulse based on the static magnetic field distribution, and determines an order of slices for collecting the second MR signal in accordance with the first and/or second center frequencies, wherein the imaging control circuitry performs the multi-slice imaging in accordance with the order and the first and second center frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Nobuyasu Ichinose, Hiroshi Takai, Naho Imamura
  • Patent number: 10942236
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to the present embodiment includes sequence control circuitry. The sequence control circuitry collect first MR data in a first cardiac cycle by excitation of a first region including a first slice, and collects reference data used for phase correction of second MR data on a second slice not included in the first region before and after the collection of the first MR data in the first cardiac cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Tamura, Hiroshi Takai, Nobuyuki Konuma
  • Patent number: 10908242
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an interface, processing circuitry, and imaging control circuitry. The interface inputs, to a locator image, a position-indicating region indicating a position in a displayed cross section. The processing circuitry determines a collection direction relating to multi-slice imaging based on a static magnetic field distribution relating to the position-indicating region and the position-indicating region. The imaging control circuitry performs the multi-slice imaging in the collection direction to a plurality of slices in an imaging region which includes at least the position-indicating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Nobuyasu Ichinose, Hiroshi Takai, Naho Imamura
  • Publication number: 20200327645
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates noise intensity from first data acquired during a first scan. The processing circuitry calculates a denoising intensity used for a denoising process based on the noise intensity and the difference between an imaging condition for the first scan and an imaging condition for a second scan, the denoising process being applied to second data obtained by the second scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAI, Kensuke SHINODA, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Masahito NAMBU
  • Publication number: 20200241098
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus of embodiments includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data and a g-factor map. The data is generated as a result of a reception by an RF coil. The processing circuitry is configured to determine strength of denoise performed on the data on the basis of the g-factor map and perform the denoise on the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke SHINODA, Kazuto NAKABAYASHI, Hitoshi KANAZAWA, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Yuichi YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200200848
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi YAMASHITA, Kazuto NAKABAYASHI, Hitoshi KANAZAWA, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyuki KONUMA, Kensuke SHINODA
  • Publication number: 20200041600
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates a static magnetic field correction amount based on a static magnetic field distribution of a first imaging range narrower than a second imaging range. The processing circuitry collects a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the second imaging range under a static magnetic field which is corrected based on the static magnetic field correction amount. The processing circuitry corrects distortion of the collected the MR image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei NITTA, Naho IMAMURA, Takahiro OHMURE, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyasu ICHINOSE, Yoshimori KASSAI
  • Publication number: 20200041593
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first resonance frequency distribution of a first tissue and a second resonance frequency distribution of a second tissue which is different from the first tissue. The processing circuitry calculates a center frequency of a frequency-selective pulse that suppresses or emphasizes either one of the first tissue and the second tissue in accordance with the first and second resonance frequency distributions. The processing circuitry collects a magnetic resonance signal after the frequency-selective pulse is applied at the calculated center frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei NITTA, Naho IMAMURA, Takahiro OHMURE, Hiroshi TAKAI, Nobuyasu ICHINOSE, Yoshimori KASSAI