Patents by Inventor Junya Morita

Junya Morita 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: 11961165
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions in a case of tomosynthesis imaging. A reconstruction unit reconstructs all or a part of the plurality of projection images to generate a tomographic image on each of a plurality of tomographic planes of a subject. A feature point detecting unit detects at least one feature point from a plurality of the tomographic images. A positional shift amount derivation unit derives a positional shift amount between the plurality of projection images with the feature point as a reference on a corresponding tomographic plane corresponding to the tomographic image in which the feature point is detected. The reconstruction unit reconstructs the plurality of projection images by correcting the positional shift amount to generate a corrected tomographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11944472
    Abstract: The radiographic system includes an exposure table on which a breast of a subject is placed, a compression plate that compresses the breast placed on the exposure table, a marker having a two-dimensional pattern provided on the compression plate, a radiation source that irradiates the compressed breast with radiation, a camera that captures a visible light image including the marker, and a processor that derives height information of the compression plate with respect to the exposure table based on a marker image showing the marker reflected in the visible light image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11883221
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first breast image by imaging a breast which is being compressed by first imaging. A three-dimensional information derivation unit derives three-dimensional information of a mammary gland included in the first breast image. An imaging mode setting unit sets an imaging mode for second imaging of the breast based on the three-dimensional information. The image acquisition unit acquires a second breast image by imaging the breast without releasing a state during the first imaging where the breast is compressed by the second imaging based on the set imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Publication number: 20230316524
    Abstract: A processor provided in a radiation image processing apparatus acquires two radiation images obtained by imaging breasts of the same subject, calculates, based on the radiation images, a pixel mammary gland ratio, which is a ratio of a mammary gland for each pixel in each of the radiation images, calculates, based on the pixel mammary gland ratio, a region mammary gland ratio in a predetermined region of each of the radiation images, evaluates extensibility of the mammary gland by comparing two region mammary gland ratios respectively calculated using the two radiation images, and performs control to display an evaluation result of the extensibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Patent number: 11751822
    Abstract: An information acquisition unit acquires at least one information item of subject information, imaging condition information, or positioning information. Next, a body movement feature derivation unit derives body movement feature information indicating a feature of body movement of a breast which occurs at the time of the tomosynthesis imaging. A storage stores correspondence information in which the derived body movement feature information corresponds to at least one information item of the subject information, the imaging condition information, or the positioning information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Publication number: 20230277141
    Abstract: An information acquisition unit acquires at least one information item of subject information, imaging condition information, or positioning information. Next, a body movement feature derivation unit derives body movement feature information indicating a feature of body movement of a breast which occurs at the time of the tomosynthesis imaging. A storage stores correspondence information in which the derived body movement feature information corresponds to at least one information item of the subject information, the imaging condition information, or the positioning information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Patent number: 11610344
    Abstract: An image interpretation support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of projection images obtained by tomosynthesis imaging in which a radiation is irradiated to a breast from different irradiation angles by a radiation source and a projection image is captured at each irradiation angle by a radiation detector; a first generation unit that generates a plurality of tomographic images on each of a plurality of tomographic planes of the breast from the plurality of projection images; a second generation unit that generates a synthetic two-dimensional image from a plurality of images among the plurality of projection images and the plurality of tomographic images; a detection unit that detects an object of interest candidate region estimated to include an object of interest from the synthetic two-dimensional image; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the object of interest is included in the object of interest candidate region on the basis of the plurality of tomog
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11540797
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions at the time of tomosynthesis imaging, the plurality of projection images being generated by causing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging. A positional shift amount derivation unit derives a positional shift amount between the plurality of projection images based on body movement of the subject with a reference projection image generated at a radiation source position where an optical axis of the radiation emitted from the radiation source is perpendicular to a detection surface of the detection unit, among the plurality of projection images, as a reference. A reconstruction unit generates a tomographic image of at least one tomographic plane of the subject by reconstructing the plurality of projection images while correcting the positional shift amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Publication number: 20220358649
    Abstract: A processor is configured to generate a structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image from a plurality of tomographic images, to detect a structure of interest from the plurality of tomographic images or the structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image, and to set at least some of the plurality of tomographic images as either storage-required images or non-storage-required images based on a detection result of the structure of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Publication number: 20220343500
    Abstract: A processor is configured to set whether or not to generate a structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image from a plurality of tomographic images and to set at least some of the plurality of tomographic images as storage-required images or non-storage-required images according to a result of the setting of whether or not to generate the structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Publication number: 20220343501
    Abstract: A processor generates a structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image from a plurality of tomographic images and detects a structure of interest from the plurality of tomographic images and the structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image. The processor sets at least some of the plurality of tomographic images as storage-required images or non-storage-required images according to a result of comparison between the structure of interest detected from the plurality of tomographic images and the structure of interest detected from the structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Publication number: 20220270306
    Abstract: The information processing device includes a processor. The processor performs: a reconstruction process of reconstructing a plurality of tomographic images from a plurality of projection images obtained by tomosynthesis imaging that irradiates an object with radiation from a radiation source at a plurality of radiation source positions; a synthesis process of synthesizing the plurality of tomographic images to generate a synthesized two-dimensional image as a projection image based on a virtual radiation source position; an anatomical structure extraction process of extracting anatomical structures from a projection image corresponding to a radiation source position closest to the virtual radiation source position among the plurality of radiation source positions; and a display process of displaying an extraction result of the anatomical structures on a display device together with the synthesized two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Publication number: 20220240874
    Abstract: The radiographic system includes an exposure table on which a breast of a subject is placed, a compression plate that compresses the breast placed on the exposure table, a marker having a two-dimensional pattern provided on the compression plate, a radiation source that irradiates the compressed breast with radiation, a camera that captures a visible light image including the marker, and a processor that derives height information of the compression plate with respect to the exposure table based on a marker image showing the marker reflected in the visible light image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Publication number: 20210393225
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first breast image by imaging a breast which is being compressed by first imaging. A three-dimensional information derivation unit derives three-dimensional information of a mammary gland included in the first breast image. An imaging mode setting unit sets an imaging mode for second imaging of the breast based on the three-dimensional information. The image acquisition unit acquires a second breast image by imaging the breast without releasing a state during the first imaging where the breast is compressed by the second imaging based on the set imaging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Junya MORITA
  • Patent number: 11170541
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a depth map creating unit that creates, on the basis of a two-dimensional radiation image and a plurality of tomographic images for the same subject, a plurality of depth maps in which each position on the two-dimensional radiation image and depth information indicating a depth directional position of a tomographic plane corresponding to each position are associated with each other while changing a correspondence relationship between each position on the two-dimensional radiation image and the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11160522
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a radiographic image of a breast; and a derivation unit that derives a percentage of mammary glands of a breast image in the radiographic image acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of an amount of incident radiation on a direct region which is a region directly irradiated with radiation without passing through the breast and an amount of incident radiation on a mammary gland tissue pixel obtained by a portion of the breast which is estimated to be composed of only mammary gland tissues in the radiographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11154257
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images, which are generated by causing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging for irradiating a subject with radiation under a first imaging condition for tomosynthesis imaging and which respectively correspond to a plurality of radiation source positions at the time of tomosynthesis imaging. A body movement determination unit determines whether or not the body movement of the subject is occurring during tomosynthesis imaging on the basis of the plurality of projection images. A condition setting unit sets a second imaging condition for simple imaging in the imaging apparatus in a case where the body movement is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Morita, Wataru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11134909
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of radiographic images of the same breast which have captured in a plurality of different states related to compression of the breast; and a derivation unit that derives, on the basis of an amount of incident radiation derived from a value of a fat tissue pixel in a radiographic image in which the fat tissue pixel obtained by a portion of the breast which is estimated to be composed of only fat tissues is included in a breast image among the plurality of radiographic images acquired by the acquisition unit, a percentage of mammary glands of a breast image in a radiographic image different from the radiographic image used to derive the amount of incident radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11083410
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a breast image, and a first estimation unit calculates a first estimated value of a direct arrival dose in a direct X-ray region, which is included in the breast image and to which X-rays are directly emitted, based on the imaging conditions at the time of X-ray imaging. A second estimation unit calculates a second estimated value of the direct arrival dose based on the pixel value of the direct X-ray region included in the breast image. A determination unit determines a direct arrival dose, which is used for calculation of the mammary gland content rate, based on the first estimated value and the second estimated value. A calculation unit calculates a mammary gland content rate using the direct arrival dose determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Publication number: 20210166443
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions in a case of tomosynthesis imaging. A reconstruction unit reconstructs all or a part of the plurality of projection images to generate a tomographic image on each of a plurality of tomographic planes of a subject. A feature point detecting unit detects at least one feature point from a plurality of the tomographic images. A positional shift amount derivation unit derives a positional shift amount between the plurality of projection images with the feature point as a reference on a corresponding tomographic plane corresponding to the tomographic image in which the feature point is detected. The reconstruction unit reconstructs the plurality of projection images by correcting the positional shift amount to generate a corrected tomographic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Junya MORITA