Abstract: The present invention allows to estimate a continuous surface that defines a boundary surface of an object using image data, even if the image data was acquired by an imaging method in which image information on the boundary surface of the object is limited. An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a calculating unit that calculates a brightness gradient of a voxel group constituting volume data which represents a reconstructed image, and an estimating unit that estimates by using the brightness gradient a continuous surface which defines a boundary surface of an object corresponding to the volume data.

Abstract: An electric-motor control apparatus includes: a command generation unit; a drive detector; a drive-current detection unit; a current-control computation unit; a steady-state-load calculation unit; a first steady-state-load reference-value storage unit; and a tension-variation analysis unit. The command generation unit outputs a drive command signal of an electric motor; the drive detector outputs a drive detection signal of the electric motor; the control computation unit receives the drive detection signal and the drive command signal and outputs a current command value; the drive-current detection unit outputs a drive-current detection value; the current-control computation unit outputs the drive current to the electric motor; and the steady-state-load calculation unit outputs a steady-state-load calculation value. The first steady-state-load reference-value storage unit stores a first steady-state-load reference value; and the tension-variation analysis unit outputs a tension-variation analysis value.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to execute structural analysis on a tomographic image acquired by an acquiring unit and detect an abnormal portion of the eye; and a display control unit configured to cause a displaying unit to display a finding of the abnormal portion detected by the detecting unit, as a sentence or a word in a manner superimposed on the tomographic image.

Abstract: The disclosure proposes an image processing apparatus for rendering a maximum intensity projection image by extracting, as objects to be rendered, only voxels having a high brightness value in three-dimensional volume data and using the brightness values of these voxels for the corresponding pixels.

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 casting device includes: a split mold for forming a cavity, including a lower mold, a middle mold that slides in a horizontal direction on the lower mold and an upper mold; a split case for forming a chamber, including a lower case to which the lower mold is attached and an upper case to which the upper mold is attached; a chamber suction device that reduces a pressure at least in the chamber through a chamber pipe that is connected to the chamber and extends to an outside of the chamber; and a cavity suction device that reduces a pressure in the cavity through a cavity pipe that is connected to the cavity and extends to the outside of the chamber. The cavity and the chamber are formed when the middle mold is closed on the lower mold and the split case is closed.

Abstract: A motor controller includes: an error suppression compensation unit that outputs an error suppression signal for driving the motor such that a difference between the position command signal and a signal based on the motor position signal equals zero; an acceleration extraction unit that outputs an acceleration component of a natural frequency of a stand from a stand vibration signal; an acceleration compensation unit that outputs a proportional compensation signal obtained by multiplying the stand acceleration signal by a proportional gain; a machine end correction unit that outputs a machine end correction signal, and decreases an amplitude of vibration at the machine end relative position; and an addition unit that outputs a signal obtained by adding the machine end correction signal to the error suppression signal.

Abstract: The position of the fovea is estimated with high accuracy in a manner such that the thicknesses of a first region including at least a partial region of a region from the internal limiting membrane to the boundary between the external plexiform layer and the external granular layer and a second region including at least a partial region of a region from the boundary to the photoreceptor cell inner segment/outer segment junction are compared with each other, and the position of the fovea is estimated.

Abstract: An aluminum pigment comprising plane particles having a particle planarity (shortest length/particle cross-sectional length) of 0.95 to 1.00 at 60% to 100% by number, wherein the mean particle diameter d50 of the particles is 4 ?m to 15 ?m.

Abstract: A motor-control device includes: a command generation unit; an operation detection unit; a drive control unit outputting a drive control signal, a speed signal, and a drive force signal; a current control unit outputting a drive current and the drive current detection value; a mechanical characteristic estimation unit outputting a mechanical characteristic estimation value; an integration unit outputting an integrated drive time or drive amount integrated value of a drive unit; a set period determination unit outputting a signal indicating a set period for a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit; a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit outputting a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold; and a mechanical characteristic abnormality detection unit detecting a mechanical characteristic abnormality.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a lesion having a ground glass opacity from an image includes a change unit which changes a pixel value corresponding to a candidate region for the ground glass opacity to a predetermined pixel value range, a first feature amount extraction unit which obtains a first feature amount from the image, the pixel value of which is changed, and an extraction unit which extracts the lesion from the image based on the first feature amount.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a lesion having a ground glass opacity from an image includes a change unit which changes a pixel value corresponding to a candidate region for the ground glass opacity to a predetermined pixel value range, a first feature amount extraction unit which obtains a first feature amount from the image, the pixel value of which is changed, and an extraction unit which extracts the lesion from the image based on the first feature amount.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to execute structural analysis on a tomographic image acquired by an acquiring unit and detect an abnormal portion of the eye; and a display control unit configured to cause a displaying unit to display a finding of the abnormal portion detected by the detecting unit, as a sentence or a word in a manner superimposed on the tomographic image.

Abstract: A device including: a command-generator outputting a drive command signal to a drive unit; a detector outputting a position-detection signal of the drive unit; a drive-current detector outputting a drive-current detection value; a controller receiving the drive command and position-detection signals to generate a drive-force command signal, and supplying the drive current according to the drive-force command signal and the drive-current detection value; a friction-characteristics-estimator receiving a drive force signal and the position-detection signal to output a friction-characteristics estimate value; a temperature-information acquirer outputting a temperature information value; a friction modeling unit having a set reference friction model having temperature-dependent characteristics, and outputting reference friction characteristics based on the temperature information value; and a friction-variation analyzer outputting a friction variation value based on variation of the friction-characteristics estima

Abstract: A casting device includes: a split mold for forming a cavity, including a lower mold, a middle mold that slides in a horizontal direction on the lower mold and an upper mold; a split case for forming a chamber, including a lower case to which the lower mold is attached and an upper case to which the upper mold is attached; a chamber suction device that reduces a pressure at least in the chamber through a chamber pipe that is connected to the chamber and extends to an outside of the chamber; and a cavity suction device that reduces a pressure in the cavity through a cavity pipe that is connected to the cavity and extends to the outside of the chamber. The cavity and the chamber are formed when the middle mold is closed on the lower mold and the split case is closed.

Abstract: A motor controller includes: an error suppression compensation unit that outputs an error suppression signal for driving the motor such that a difference between the position command signal and a signal based on the motor position signal equals zero; an acceleration extraction unit that outputs an acceleration component of a natural frequency of a stand from a stand vibration signal; an acceleration compensation unit that outputs a proportional compensation signal obtained by multiplying the stand acceleration signal by a proportional gain; a machine end correction unit that outputs a machine end correction signal, and decreases an amplitude of vibration at the machine end relative position; and an addition unit that outputs a signal obtained by adding the machine end correction signal to the error suppression signal.

Abstract: A motor-control device includes: a command generation unit; an operation detection unit; a drive control unit outputting a drive control signal, a speed signal, and a drive force signal; a current control unit outputting a drive current and the drive current detection value; a mechanical characteristic estimation unit outputting a mechanical characteristic estimation value; an integration unit outputting an integrated drive time or drive amount integrated value of a drive unit; a set period determination unit outputting a signal indicating a set period for a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit; a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold output unit outputting a mechanical characteristic permissible threshold; and a mechanical characteristic abnormality detection unit detecting a mechanical characteristic abnormality.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to execute structural analysis on a tomographic image acquired by an acquiring unit and detect an abnormal portion of the eye; and a display control unit configured to cause a displaying unit to display a finding of the abnormal portion detected by the detecting unit, as a sentence or a word in a manner superimposed on the tomographic image.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors, an acceptance unit configured to accept a specification of one piece of medical information in a set of a plurality of pieces of medical information being displayed on a display unit, a selection unit configured to select reference medical information from the set of medical information based on an associatin between a type of the specified medical information and a type of medical information which belongs to the set of medical information and which is different from the specified medical information, and a change unit configured to change an appearance of the reference medical information to an appearance different from an appearance of medical information other than the reference medical information in the set of the plurality of pieces of medical information.

Abstract: A motor control device includes: an X-axis detector; a Y-axis detector; a trajectory command generator that outputs a first position command and a second position command; an X-axis response correction unit that outputs a corrected position command; an X-axis position control unit that generates a first torque command; a Y-axis position control unit that generates a second torque command; a Y-axis measuring instrument that detects second machine end displacement; a Y-axis zero-point estimation unit that extracts characteristics of a zero point of a transfer function on the basis of the second torque command and the machine end displacement or on the basis of the second position command and the machine end displacement; and a response-correction-parameter determination unit that sets a response correction filter by using the characteristics of the zero point.