Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Mine
Yoshitaka Mine 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).
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Publication number: 20230414201Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires position information relating to an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic image. The processing circuitry acquires ultrasonic image data which is obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasonic from the ultrasonic probe at a position where the position information is acquired, the ultrasonic image data being associated with the position information. The processing circuitry executes associating between a first coordinate system relating to the position information and a second coordinate system relating to medical image data. The processing circuitry executes image alignment between an ultrasonic image based on the associated ultrasonic image data and a medical image based on the medical image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MINE, Satoshi MATSUNAGA, Yukifumi KOBAYASHI, Kazuo TEZUKA, Jiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAI, Shigemitsu NAKAYA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11832990Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire at least one of optical image data and sound data as data related to a confirmation item corresponding to a disorder name of a subject or an examination type for an ultrasonic scan; associate the ultrasonic image data acquired by the ultrasonic scan with the data related to the confirmation item; and store the association in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemitsu Nakaya, Jiro Higuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi, Atsushi Nakai, Kazuo Tezuka, Yoshitaka Mine, Shunsuke Satoh
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Publication number: 20230200784Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The probe conducts ultrasonic scanning on a three-dimensional area of a subject and receives a reflected wave from the subject. The circuitry acquires the correspondence relation between a position in ultrasonic image data on the three-dimensional area based on the reflected wave and a position in volume data on the subject captured by a different medical-image diagnostic device. The circuitry receives, from an operator, an operation to set a position marker, which indicates the position at which blood-flow information is extracted, on a scan area of the ultrasonic image data. The circuitry causes the image generated during a rendering process on the ultrasonic image data to be displayed and causes the position marker to be displayed at a corresponding position on a display image based on at least the volume data in accordance with the correspondence relation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Yukifumi KOBAYASHI, Satoshi MATSUNAGA, Yoshitaka MINE, Atsushi NAKAI, Jiro HIGUCHI, Kazuo TEZUKA, Shigemitsu NAKAYA
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Patent number: 11672506Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an obtaining unit, an image generating unit, and a controlling unit. The obtaining unit obtains setting information in which a plurality of types of ultrasound image data are set as display-purpose image data and in which a percentage of a time period to display the display-purpose image data is set for each of the plurality of types. The image generating unit generates, along a time series, each of the plurality of types of ultrasound image data set in the setting information. The controlling unit exercises control so that the plurality of types of ultrasound image data generated by the image generating unit are stored into a storage unit and exercises control so that the display-purpose image data is displayed on a display unit according to the percentage set in the setting information for each of the types.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Cong Yao, Shintaro Niwa, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Yoshitaka Mine
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Patent number: 11653897Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus includes a position detector, and control circuitry. The position detector detects a position in a three-dimensional space of one of an ultrasonic image and an ultrasonic probe. The control circuitry uses a vivisection view defined in a three-dimensional space. The control circuitry associates a structure related to a subject included in the ultrasonic image with a structure included in the vivisection view using a position and orientation in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of the structure related to the subject included in the ultrasonic image and a position and orientation in a second three-dimensional coordinate system of the structure included in the vivisection view.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Mine, Yutaka Kobayashi, Jiro Higuchi, Atsushi Nakai, Satoru Tezuka, Kazuo Tezuka, Cong Yao
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Patent number: 11557035Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire multiple position data associated with respective multiple two-dimensional image data of ultrasonic related to multiple cross sections; smooth the acquired multiple position data; and arrange the multiple two-dimensional image data in accordance with the smoothed multiple position data to generate volume data.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Minori Izumi, Satoshi Matsunaga, Hiroaki Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Mine
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Patent number: 11298109Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a candidate-position extracting circuitry and a position setting circuitry. The candidate-position extracting circuitry extracts a first position through comparison of a fundamental wave component between a plurality pieces of image data collected by performing ultrasonic scanning on a subject injected with a contrast agent. The candidate-position extracting circuitry also extracts a second position through comparison of a harmonic component between the pieces of image data. The position setting circuitry sets the first position or the second position as a position of a region of interest where predetermined analysis is performed in at least one image data of the pieces of image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Cong Yao, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Yoshitaka Mine, Naoki Yoneyama, Hiroki Yoshiara
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Publication number: 20220087654Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a robot arm and processing circuitry. The robot arm is capable of moving and rotating an ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry is configured to three-dimensionally perform a scan by using the robot arm. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to evaluate ultrasound data obtained from the scan so as to judge whether or not it is necessary to perform a re-scan using the robot arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka MINE
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Patent number: 11103214Abstract: In one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a probe configured to be equipped with plural transducers arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and be able to perform a two-dimensional scan in the first and second directions; a moving device configured to support the probe and mechanically move the probe in the second direction; a receiving circuit configured to generate first reception signals for respective moving positions of the probe in the second direction by performing receiving phase-compensation and summation processing on respective reflected signals received by the plurality of transducers at each of the moving positions; and processing circuitry configured to generate a second reception signal by performing moving aperture synthesis on the first reception signals generated for the respective moving positions of the probe based on positional information of the probe and generate image data from the second reception signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Mine, Kazutoshi Sadamitsu, Masami Takahashi, Masatoshi Nishino, Norihisa Kikuchi, Naoyuki Nakazawa, Atsushi Nakai, Jiro Higuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi, Cong Yao, Kazuo Tezuka, Naoki Yoneyama, Atsushi Sumi
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Publication number: 20200273168Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire multiple position data associated with respective multiple two-dimensional image data of ultrasonic related to multiple cross sections; smooth the acquired multiple position data; and arrange the multiple two-dimensional image data in accordance with the smoothed multiple position data to generate volume data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Minori IZUMI, Satoshi Matsunaga, Hiroaki Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Mine
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Patent number: 10729409Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates an image from volume data. The volume data is generated based on echo data acquired while the ultrasonic probe is moved and output of a positional sensor provided on the ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry further generates an indicator indicating speed of the ultrasonic probe and recommended speed range of moving the ultrasonic probe. The speed of the ultrasonic probe is calculated based on the output of the positional sensor. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the image and the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Satoshi Matsunaga, Yoshitaka Mine
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Patent number: 10722217Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes: a transmitting and receiving circuit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to an ultrasonic probe and receive a signal based on the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic probe; a generation circuit configured to generate multiple 2D image data in a chronological order based on the signal; an acquisition circuit configured to acquire three-dimensional multiple position data of the ultrasonic probe; an associating circuit configured to associate the multiple position data with the respective multiple 2D image data; and a correction circuit configured to correct the multiple position data associated by the associating circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Eiichi Shiki, Yoshitaka Mine
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Publication number: 20190328358Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire at least one of optical image data and sound data as data related to a confirmation item corresponding to a disorder name of a subject or an examination type for an ultrasonic scan; associate the ultrasonic image data acquired by the ultrasonic scan with the data related to the confirmation item; and store the association in a memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemitsu NAKAYA, Jiro HIGUCHI, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Atsushi NAKAI, Kazuo TEZUKA, Yoshitaka MINE, Shunsuke SATOH
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Publication number: 20190239861Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to select at least one heartbeat from among a plurality of heartbeats based on a heartbeat selection condition, generate a highlight image in which a range corresponding to the selected heartbeat is emphasized, and display an electrocardiographic waveform corresponding to the heartbeats, an ultrasonic image corresponding to the electrocardiographic waveform, and the highlight image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Atsushi Nakai, Shigemitsu Nakaya, Jiro Higuchi, Kazuo Tezuka, Yoshitaka Mine
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Patent number: 10039525Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain the position of the boundary of a region of interest that is set in first ultrasound image data of a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to generate second ultrasound image data by assigning a pixel value to each of pixels of which a change of the brightness value between before and after a contrast enhancement is equal to or larger than a threshold value with regard to pre-contrast-enhanced image data and post-contrast-enhanced image data of the subject both of which were acquired after a treatment using a puncture needle has been performed, the assigned pixel value corresponding to the distance between the pixel and the boundary of the region of interest. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display unit to display the second ultrasound image data.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiroki Yoshiara, Yuko Kanayama, Yoshitaka Mine, Cong Yao, Go Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180214133Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to set a plurality of small regions in at least one of a plurality of medical image data. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a feature value of pixel value distribution of each small region. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a feature value image of the at least one of the plurality of medical image by using the calculated feature value. The processing circuitry is configured to execute an image registration between the plurality of medical image data by utilizing the feature value image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka MINE, Satoshi MATSUNAGA, Yukifumi KOBAYASHI, Kazuo TEZUKA, Jiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAI, Shigemitsu NAKAYA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20180192996Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The probe conducts ultrasonic scanning on a three-dimensional area of a subject and receives a reflected wave from the subject. The circuitry acquires the correspondence relation between a position in ultrasonic image data on the three-dimensional area based on the reflected wave and a position in volume data on the subject captured by a different medical-image diagnostic device. The circuitry receives, from an operator, an operation to set a position marker, which indicates the position at which blood-flow information is extracted, on a scan area of the ultrasonic image data. The circuitry causes the image generated during a rendering process on the ultrasonic image data to be displayed and causes the position marker to be displayed at a corresponding position on a display image based on at least the volume data in accordance with the correspondence relation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Yukifumi Kobayashi, Satoshi Matsunaga, Yoshitaka Mine, Atsushi Nakai, Jiro Higuchi, Kazuo Tezuka, Shigemitsu Nakaya
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Publication number: 20180092628Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires position information relating to an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic image. The processing circuitry acquires ultrasonic image data which is obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasonic from the ultrasonic probe at a position where the position information is acquired, the ultrasonic image data being associated with the position information. The processing circuitry executes associating between a first coordinate system relating to the position information and a second coordinate system relating to medical image data. The processing circuitry executes image alignment between an ultrasonic image based on the associated ultrasonic image data and a medical image based on the medical image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka MINE, Satoshi Matsunaga, Yukifumi Kobayashi, Kazuo Tezuka, Jiro Higuchi, Atsushi Nakai, Shigemitsu Nakaya, Yutaka Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20180028156Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates an image from volume data. The volume data is generated based on echo data acquired while the ultrasonic probe is moved and output of a positional sensor provided on the ultrasonic probe. The processing circuitry further generates an indicator indicating speed of the ultrasonic probe and recommended speed range of moving the ultrasonic probe. The speed of the ultrasonic probe is calculated based on the output of the positional sensor. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the image and the indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi MATSUNAGA, Yoshitaka MINE
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Publication number: 20180008232Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus includes a position detector, and control circuitry. The position detector detects a position in a three-dimensional space of one of an ultrasonic image and an ultrasonic probe. The control circuitry uses a vivisection view defined in a three-dimensional space. The control circuitry associates a structure related to a subject included in the ultrasonic image with a structure included in the vivisection view using a position and orientation in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of the structure related to the subject included in the ultrasonic image and a position and orientation in a second three-dimensional coordinate system of the structure included in the vivisection view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka MINE, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Jiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi NAKAI, Satoru TEZUKA, Kazuo TEZUKA, Cong YAO