Abstract: A computer program or the like having high ability of detecting a lesion is provided. A computer program causes a computer to execute processing of: acquiring an image captured by an endoscope; inputting the image captured by the endoscope to a first recognizer that recognizes a lesion section on the basis of the image and a second recognizer that recognizes the lesion section with higher recognition accuracy than the first recognizer on the basis of the image; acquiring provisional information including a recognition result recognized by the first recognizer; outputting an image including the acquired provisional information; acquiring confirmation information for the provisional information including a recognition result recognized by the second recognizer; and outputting an image including the acquired confirmation information.

Abstract: To provide an endoscope or the like that can reuse an image sensor or the like. An endoscope includes: an imaging unit including an image sensor and an optical component that forms an image of light incident from a first end surface on the image sensor; a cable inserted into an insertion portion and having a first end connected to the imaging unit; an exterior cylinder covering a connected portion between the imaging unit and the cable; and a distal tip piece in which a housing portion having a shape fitted with a shape of the exterior cylinder is provided and which is arranged at a distal tip of the insertion portion.

Abstract: An endoscope has an insertion portion with a simple configuration. The endoscope is an endoscope having an insertion portion and an operation unit connected to one end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion includes a tube provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, an operation unit connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels.

Abstract: An endoscope capable of both improving accuracy of position control of a treatment tool and ensuring a gap for sucking a liquid is provided. The endoscope includes an insertion portion having a round tubular shape to be inserted into a body lumen, and includes: a treatment tool passage having one end opened on a distal tip surface of the insertion portion, penetrating the insertion portion in an axial length direction, and allowing a treatment tool to pass through; and a fluid passage having one end opened on the distal tip surface of the insertion portion, penetrating the insertion portion in the axial length direction, and allowing a fluid that has flowed from the one end to flow through, in which the treatment tool passage and the fluid passage are partially continuous in a cross-sectional view.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an endoscope that captures a living tissue in a body cavity, and an image processing unit. The endoscope includes an objective lens provided on a front side of a light receiving surface of an image sensor and configured to simultaneously form images of the living tissue, obtained through a plurality of windows, on the light receiving surface as the captured image. The image processing unit includes a three-dimensional expansion processor configured to calculate different directions of a feature part visible through the plurality of windows based on position information in each of images of the feature part, which is distinguishably identified from other parts and included in common in the plurality of images obtained through the plurality of windows in the captured image captured by the endoscope, and to expand two-dimensional information of the images of the feature part to three-dimensional information.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a server, a client, and a tag reader. The server and the client are connected via a network. The tag reader includes: a reading unit that reads an endoscope ID assigned to a single-use endoscope; and a transmitting unit that transmits the endoscope ID read by the reading unit to the client. The client includes: a receiving unit that receives the endoscope ID transmitted from the transmitting unit; and a use information transmitting unit that transmits use information on the endoscope based on the endoscope ID received by the receiving unit. The server includes a use information acquisition unit that acquires the use information transmitted from the use information transmitting unit.

Abstract: A device, system, and method that: acquires information that a sterilized endoscope, having reusable and non-reusable parts, is used; outputs an instruction for collecting the used endoscope from a medical institution; acquires information on the number of endoscopes scheduled for inspection, a predetermined number of endoscopes not scheduled for inspection, and the number of endoscopes in an endoscope inventory; outputs an instruction for delivering a non-used replaceable endoscope to the institution in response to the collection instruction; and outputs an instruction for delivering a non-used endoscope to the institution when equation (2) is not satisfied, equation (2) being: endoscope inventory quantity>number of endoscopes scheduled for inspection+predetermined number.

Abstract: There is provided a method for generating a learning model, the method including: acquiring an endoscopic image captured by an endoscope and manipulation information regarding a manipulation of an endoscope operator in each stage of operation of the endoscope by the endoscope operator operating the endoscope; and generating a learning model learned so as to output the manipulation information of a next stage in a case where the endoscopic image and the manipulation information are input, based on training data including the acquired endoscopic image and manipulation information, and the manipulation information of the next stage.

Abstract: A processor for an endoscope includes: an endoscopic image acquisition unit that acquires an endoscopic image of a patient from the endoscope; a virtual endoscopic image acquisition unit that acquires a virtual endoscopic image reconstructed on the basis of a three-dimensional medical image obtained by capturing an image of the patient in advance; a virtual endoscopic image reconstruction unit that reconstructs a corrected virtual endoscopic image that matches most with the endoscopic image on the basis of the degree of matching between the virtual endoscopic image and the endoscopic image; and a diagnosis support information output unit that outputs diagnosis support information based on a feature parameter corrected according to a correspondence between each pixel of the endoscopic image and a distance image obtained from the corrected virtual endoscopic image.

Abstract: An endoscope 100 is provided with an insertion unit 110 including an imaging unit 120 and an operation unit 130 that bends a part of the insertion unit 110. At least a part of the insertion unit 110 includes a tube 110a formed of a resin. The tube 110a includes a plurality of channels 110b formed of the resin included in the tube 110a.

Abstract: The resin tube is a porous resin that has a porosity changing in a radial direction from a larger porosity at the center of the tube to a non-porous resin layer on a radially outer surface of the tube.

Abstract: A computer program or the like having high ability of detecting a lesion is provided. A computer program causes a computer to execute processing of: acquiring an image captured by an endoscope; inputting the image captured by the endoscope to a first recognizer that recognizes a lesion section on the basis of the image and a second recognizer that recognizes the lesion section with higher recognition accuracy than the first recognizer on the basis of the image; acquiring provisional information including a recognition result recognized by the first recognizer; outputting an image including the acquired provisional information; acquiring confirmation information for the provisional information including a recognition result recognized by the second recognizer; and outputting an image including the acquired confirmation information.

Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion that is covered with an exterior tube with an outer diameter of 1 mm or less, an observation optical system that includes a rectangular image sensor fixed to a tip of the insertion portion and having a length of one side of 60% or less of the outer diameter of the insertion portion, an illumination fiber that is arranged between an inner surface of the exterior tube and an edge of the observation optical system and penetrates the exterior tube, a cable bundle that is connected to the image sensor and penetrates the exterior tube, and a connector that is connected to the cable bundle and the illumination fiber.

Abstract: To provide an endoscope or the like that can reuse an image sensor or the like. An endoscope includes: an imaging unit including an image sensor and an optical component that forms an image of light incident from a first end surface on the image sensor; a cable inserted into an insertion portion and having a first end connected to the imaging unit; an exterior cylinder covering a connected portion between the imaging unit and the cable; and a distal tip piece in which a housing portion having a shape fitted with a shape of the exterior cylinder is provided and which is arranged at a distal tip of the insertion portion.

Abstract: To provide an information processing method that reduces the burden on a health-care personnel engaging in endoscopic examination. An information processing method includes acquiring use information indicating that a sterilized endoscope in which a reusable part that is able to be used repeatedly and a non-reusable part that is able to be used only once are combined is used, outputting a collection instruction for collecting the endoscope corresponding to the acquired use information from the medical institution, and outputting a delivery instruction for delivering a non-used replaceable endoscope to the medical institution.

Abstract: An endoscope has an insertion portion with a simple configuration. The endoscope is an endoscope having an insertion portion and an operation unit connected to one end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion includes a tube provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, an operation unit connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels.

Abstract: A single use endoscope device which is inserted inside a subject includes: a distal end portion which includes at least an imaging element; an operation unit which operates an operation of the endoscope device; a curved portion which can be curved inside the subject by operating the operation unit; a fractured portion which detaches the distal end portion from the curved portion; and a soft portion which is extended from the operation unit to the curved portion. The distal end portion, the curved portion and the soft portion are inserted in the subject, the operation unit, the curved portion, and the soft portion are discarded after use of the endoscope device, and the distal end portion and at least the imaging element included in the distal end portion are reused.

Abstract: A single use endoscope device which is inserted inside a subject includes: a distal end portion which includes at least an imaging element; an operation unit which operates an operation of the endoscope device; a curved portion which can be curved inside the subject by operating the operation unit; a fractured portion which detaches the distal end portion from the curved portion; and a soft portion which is extended from the operation unit to the curved portion. The distal end portion, the curved portion and the soft portion are inserted in the subject, the operation unit, the curved portion, and the soft portion are discarded after use of the endoscope device, and the distal end portion and at least the imaging element included in the distal end portion are reused.

Abstract: An endoscope 100 is provided with an insertion unit 110 including an imaging unit 120 and an operation unit 130 that bends a part of the insertion unit 110. At least a part of the insertion unit 110 includes a tube 110a formed of a resin. The tube 110a includes a plurality of channels 110b formed of the resin included in the tube 110a.

Abstract: A scanning endoscope processor, comprising a photoelectric converter and a controller, is provided. The scanning endoscope processor controls a scanning endoscope having first and second transmitters and an actuator. The photoelectric converter receives light transmitted from the second transmitter and generates a pixel signal according to the amount of light received. The second transmitter transmits reflected light and/or fluorescence from a point within an observation area illuminated by the light emitted from a first emission end. The first transmitter emits the light as a beam from the first emission end. The actuator moves the first emission end along a spiral course. The controller adjusts at least one of a first angular velocity and a generation cycle so that the product of the first angular velocity, the generation cycle, and a first distance is within a predetermined range.