Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, in a medical image, a first region and a second region different from the first region, a limiting unit that limits extracting a third region, connecting the first region and the second region, within a range including an extraction direction determined based on the first region; and an extraction unit that extracts the third region within the range limited by the limiting unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method for removing keratotic plugs capable of sufficiently exhibiting an excellent keratotic plug-removing effect without a burden, such as pain and feeling of irritation, on the skin. The present invention relates to a method for removing keratotic plugs comprising using a composition comprising 0.8 mass % or more and 20 mass % or less of (A) arginine and having a pH of 8.0 or more and 12.5 or less at 25° C.

Abstract: A shaped sheet including a plurality of rows of protruding portions formed on a non-woven fabric sheet and extending in a first direction and a plurality of rows of protruding portions formed on the non-woven fabric sheet and extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction, wherein: the shaped sheet is more stretchable in the first direction than in the second direction; the shaped sheet is formed from a single layer of the non-woven fabric sheet; and a fusion-bonded portion that extends discontinuously or continuously in the first direction and that has a smaller thickness than the protruding portions due to its fusion-bonded structure is provided along a part or whole of a periphery of the protruding portions on the shaped sheet.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises generating unit configured to generate a second image by changing a size of a first image such that a region of interest in the second image satisfies a predetermined criterion about a dimension; and extracting unit configured to extract the region of interest from the second image generated by the generating unit, by applying a Graph-Cut method using a Graph-Cut coefficient corresponding to the criterion to the second image.

Abstract: A boundary of a site included as an attached abnormal shadow in a medical image is corrected to allow assisting in diagnosis based on a shape of a tissue. An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a boundary extraction unit configured to extract a boundary of a first site and a boundary of a second site in the medical image; a boundary identification unit configured to identify a partial boundary of the first site that is adhere to the boundary of the second site as a first boundary part, and to identify a partial boundary of the first site that is not adhere to the boundary of the second site as a second boundary part; and a correction unit configured to correct a shape of the first boundary part based on the second boundary part.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an apparatus presenting information serving as a reason for inference as information on findings so as to be easily recognized by a doctor. A medical diagnosis support apparatus infers a diagnostic name derived from a medical image based on image feature values indicating features of a region included in the medical image, acquires information on findings representing the features of the region included in the medical image based on the image feature values, and presents the information on the findings as a reason for the inference.

Abstract: A road surface submergence estimation device including a motion sensor that acquires an actual acceleration of a vehicle; a torque acquisition sensor that acquires an actual torque transmitted from a driving source to wheels of the vehicle, the driving source being mounted in the vehicle; and an estimation processor that estimates that a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling is submerged when it is determined that a submergence determination condition is satisfied. The road surface submergence estimation device may also include a wireless communication device configured to either send submergence information to a central server, or receive additional submergence information from a central server.

Abstract: There is provided a component placing device which places a component on a board, including: a shaft having a lower portion and an upper portion; a component holder that is attached to the lower portion of the shaft in a state of being vertically displaceable and has a suction hole for holding the component by a negative pressure; an elastic body that biases the component holder downward with respect to the shaft; a servo motor that raises and lowers the shaft; and a controller that causes the component holder to perform a raising and lowering operation for placing the component held by the component holder on the board by controlling the servo motor based on a preset operation pattern. Furthermore, the controller includes a thrust limiter that sets a thrust limit value for limiting a thrust of the servo motor and limits the thrust of the servo motor to be equal to or lower than the thrust limit value when the component holder is lowered toward the board.

Abstract: An image processing system includes a first setting unit configured to set, in a learning image, a plurality of mutually different position coordinates belonging to a region of interest presenting a site of interest rendered in the learning image, an extracting unit configured to extract the region of interest by using the plurality of position coordinates, a calculating unit configured to calculate a feature value for determining an attribute of the site of interest from a plurality of extraction results of the region of interest corresponding to the plurality of position coordinates, and a constructing unit configured to construct an identifier for determining the attribute based on a plurality of the feature values corresponding to the plurality of extraction results of the region of interest and a correct answer value of the attribute of the site of interest rendered in the learning image.

Abstract: A first extraction unit that extracts a region of a pulmonary nodule drawn in an image, a second extraction unit that extracts a region of a structure drawn in the image, a setting unit that sets a decision boundary to be at a position away from the pulmonary nodule region by a distance determined on a basis of a size of the pulmonary nodule region, a decision unit that decides whether or not the structure region extracted by the second extraction unit contacts with both a region related to the pulmonary nodule region and the decision boundary, and an acquisition unit that acquires, as a region of a desired structure, the structure region decided by the decision unit to contact with both the pulmonary nodule region and the decision boundary in the structure region extracted by the second extraction unit are included.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires, in a medical image, a first region and a second region different from the first region, a limiting unit that limits extracting a third region, connecting the first region and the second region, within a range including an extraction direction determined based on the first region; and an extraction unit that extracts the third region within the range limited by the limiting unit.

Abstract: A double-side polishing method of polishing both surfaces of a wafer by holding the wafer with a carrier including a holding hole configured to hold the wafer and a ring-shaped resin insert disposed along an internal circumference of the holding hole, the resin insert having an inner circumferential surface configured to contact a peripheral portion of the wafer, interposing the carrier between upper and lower turn tables to which polishing pads are attached, polishing both the surfaces of the wafer while maintaining planarity of the inner circumferential surface at or below 100 ?m and verticalness of the inner circumferential surface at or below 5°. The method can inhibit the degradation of the flatness of the polished wafer, such as particularly an outer circumferential sag, due to variation in shape of the inner circumferential surface of the resin insert of a carrier.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to extract an object region from an image. The image processing apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a plurality of reference points in the image; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a contour of the object region corresponding to each of the plurality of reference points as an initial extraction result based on a characteristic of the object region; and an extraction unit configured to extract the object region from the image based on an integration result obtained by integrating values of pixels in a plurality of initial extraction results.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises generating unit configured to generate a second image by changing a size of a first image such that a region of interest in the second image satisfies a predetermined criterion about a dimension; and extracting unit configured to extract the region of interest from the second image generated by the generating unit, by applying a Graph-Cut method using a Graph-Cut coefficient corresponding to the criterion to the second image.

Abstract: A boundary of a site included as an attached abnormal shadow in a medical image is corrected to allow assisting in diagnosis based on a shape of a tissue. An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a boundary extraction unit configured to extract a boundary of a first site and a boundary of a second site in the medical image; a boundary identification unit configured to identify a partial boundary of the first site that is adhere to the boundary of the second site as a first boundary part, and to identify a partial boundary of the first site that is not adhere to the boundary of the second site as a second boundary part; and a correction unit configured to correct a shape of the first boundary part based on the second boundary part.

Abstract: A road surface submergence estimation device including a motion sensor that acquires an actual acceleration of a vehicle; a torque acquisition sensor that acquires an actual torque transmitted from a driving source to wheels of the vehicle, the driving source being mounted in the vehicle; and an estimation processor that estimates that a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling is submerged when it is determined that a submergence determination condition is satisfied. The road surface submergence estimation device may also include a wireless communication device configured to either send submergence information to a central server, or receive additional submergence information from a central server.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising, boundary extraction means for detecting boundaries of retina layers from a tomogram of an eye to be examined, exudate extraction means for extracting an exudate region from a fundus image of the eye to be examined, registration means for performing registration between the tomogram and the fundus image, and calculating a spatial correspondence between the tomogram and the fundus image, specifying means for specifying a region where an exudate exists in the tomogram using the boundaries of the retina layers, the exudate region, and the spatial correspondence, likelihood calculation means for calculating likelihoods of existence of the exudate in association with the specified region, and tomogram exudate extraction means for extracting an exudate region in the tomogram from the specified region using the likelihoods.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which analyzes retina layers of an eye to be examined, comprising, means for extracting a feature amount, which represents an anatomical feature in the eye to be examined, from a projection image obtained from a tomogram of the retina layers and a fundus image of the eye to be examined, means for determining a type of the anatomical feature based on the feature amount, means for deciding layers to be detected from the retina layers according to the determined type of the anatomical feature, and detecting structures of the decided layers in the tomogram, and means for modifying the structure of the layer included in a region having the anatomical feature of the structures of the layers detected by the layer structure detection means.

Abstract: A wafer polishing apparatus configured to polish simultaneously both surfaces of a wafer by pressing and rubbing the wafer, while holding the wafer with: a lower turn table having a flat polishing-upper-surface rotationally driven; an upper turn table having a flat polishing-lower-surface rotationally driven, the upper turn table being arranged with facing to the lower turn table; and a carrier having a wafer-holding hole for holding the wafer, wherein the polishing is performed while measuring a thickness of the wafer through a plurality of openings provided between a rotation center and an edge of the upper turn table or the lower turn table, and switching a polishing slurry with a polishing slurry having a different polishing rate during the polishing of the wafer. As a result, the wafer polishing apparatus can manufacture a wafer having a high flatness and a high smoothness at high productivity and high yield.

Abstract: A double-side polishing method of polishing both surfaces of a wafer by holding the wafer with a carrier including a holding hole configured to hold the wafer and a ring-shaped resin insert disposed along an internal circumference of the holding hole, the resin insert having an inner circumferential surface configured to contact a peripheral portion of the wafer, interposing the carrier between upper and lower turn tables to which polishing pads are attached, polishing both the surfaces of the wafer while maintaining planarity of the inner circumferential surface at or below 100 ?m and verticalness of the inner circumferential surface at or below 5°. The method can inhibit the degradation of the flatness of the polished wafer, such as particularly an outer circumferential sag, due to variation in shape of the inner circumferential surface of the resin insert of a carrier.