Patents by Inventor Hidetaka KONTA

Hidetaka KONTA 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).

  • Publication number: 20220084202
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform an image generating process of generating a plurality of medical images on the basis of a plurality of imaging parameter groups, the plurality of imaging parameter groups being updated by adversarial learning. The processing circuitry is configured to perform a discriminating process of discriminating whether or not each of the plurality of medical images is a target image acquired by a first medical imaging apparatus in the adversarial learning. The processing circuitry is configured to output one of the imaging parameter groups used for generating the medical images in the image generating process when the adversarial learning has converged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka HOSHIYAMA, Yoshimori KASSAI, Yuto ONO, Junichiro ARAOKA, Kazuya TANOUE, Hidetaka KONTA
  • Publication number: 20210137481
    Abstract: An imaging assisting apparatus according to an embodiment is configured to assist imaging of a medical image diagnosis apparatus that performs a series of medical examinations including a plurality of scan protocols, the imaging assisting apparatus including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain data acquired according to one or more already-executed scan protocols among the plurality of scan protocols. The processing circuit is configured to perform one of the following when a disease or a region suspected of a disease is extracted from the data: controlling a scan protocol which is among the plurality of scan protocols and later than the already-executed scan protocols; and generating reference information related to controlling a scan protocol which is among the plurality of scan protocols and later than the already-executed scan protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya OZAWA, Kiyomi OSHIMA, Kensuke SHINODA, Gaku KANEDA, Hidetaka KONTA, Yuto ONO, Yoshiharu OHIWA
  • Patent number: 10976397
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a memory storing a predetermined program and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured, by executing the predetermined program, to generate a first image based on first data acquired from an object with Ultrashort TE (UTE), generate a second image based on second data acquired from the object with non-UTE, generate a mask image from the second image, and perform mask processing, by using the mask image, to remove or reduce an undesired signal around the object depicted in the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Obara, Hidetaka Konta, Shinya Ozawa, Yoshimori Kassai
  • Publication number: 20190346525
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a memory storing a predetermined program and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured, by executing the predetermined program, to generate a first image based on first data acquired from an object with Ultrashort TE (UTE), generate a second image based on second data acquired from the object with non-UTE, generate a mask image from the second image, and perform mask processing, by using the mask image, to remove or reduce an undesired signal around the object depicted in the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Obara, Hidetaka Konta, Shinya Ozawa, Yoshimori Kassai
  • Patent number: 10393844
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus (20) includes a reference scan setting unit (100), a reference scan execution unit, and an image generation unit. The reference scan setting unit calculates a signal acquisition region of “a reference scan in which MR signals used for generation of a sensitivity distribution map of each coil element are acquired”, depending on an imaging region of a main scan of parallel imaging. The reference scan execution unit executes the reference scan on the calculated signal acquisition region. The image generation unit generates image data according to “MR signals acquired by the main scan” and “the sensitivity distribution map generated based on MR signals acquired by the reference scan”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetaka Konta, Kiyomi Ooshima, Masashi Ookawa
  • Publication number: 20180064403
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a display and processing circuitry. The display displays a relationship diagram indicating a relationship between values which are respectively set for imaging parameters relating to an imaging condition of medical imaging. The processing circuitry updates the relationship diagram in accordance with a moving operation of a point corresponding to each of the values on the relationship diagram, or a change operation of the imaging condition. The processing circuitry changes the imaging condition before the moving operation or the change operation to an imaging condition which reflects the moving operation or the change operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka KONTA, Takeshi Obara, Masashi Ookawa, Kiyomi Oshima, Hideyuki Ooba, Kentarou Furuhata, Yutaka Fukushiwa