Abstract: A quality determination system of a jelly for swallowing and a quality determination method of a jelly for swallowing that can non-invasively determine quality of a jelly for swallowing based on an ultrasound image are provided. A quality determination system of a jelly for swallowing includes an ultrasound probe, an image generation unit that generates an ultrasound image from a reception signal obtained by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound beam to and from a subject using the ultrasound probe, an image analysis unit that acquires a first air bubble pattern in a jelly for swallowing by analyzing the ultrasound image generated in a state where the ultrasound probe is in contact with an outer surface of an unopened package in which the jelly for swallowing including air bubbles is sealed, and a quality determination unit that determines quality of the jelly for swallowing based on the first air bubble pattern.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) having a predetermined size; and a portable diagnostic apparatus main body (3), in which the diagnostic apparatus main body (3) includes a camera (25) that captures an optical image including a wound region of a subject and the ultrasound probe, an image generation unit (22) that generates an ultrasound image for the wound region, a monitor (24) that displays the optical image and the ultrasound image, an extraction unit (26) that extracts the wound region and the ultrasound probe from the optical image, and a wound size calculation unit (27) that calculates an actual size of the wound region on the basis of the predetermined size of the ultrasound probe (2) by comparing the extracted wound region and the extracted ultrasound probe (2), and displays the actual size on the monitor (24).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a computing device and includes receiving ultrasound images that include a blood vessel, and determining, with a neural network implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device, diameters of the blood vessel in the ultrasound images. The diameters include a respective diameter of the blood vessel for each ultrasound image of the ultrasound images. The method includes determining a blood vessel diameter based on the diameters of the blood vessel, selecting a color based on the blood vessel diameter, and indicating, in one of the ultrasound images, the blood vessel with an indicator having the color.

Abstract: A computer that functions as an image processing apparatus that includes a plurality of processor cores extracts, from an object group in which a plurality of image processing modules for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, a plurality of image processing modules that are serially connected to each other, and causes the same processor core among the plurality of processor cores to execute image processing in each of the plurality of extracted image processing modules.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs a partial process with respect to each piece of divided image data obtained by dividing an input image expressed by input image data into partial regions using each object of an object group in which plural objects for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, including: an assignment section that assigns a dependency relationship of processes to the partial processes between the connected the objects and assigns a priority to each partial process; a registration section that arranges executable partial processes on the basis of the dependency relationship in accordance with the assigned priorities and registers the result in an executable partial process list; and an execution section that executes the partial processes in a descending order of the priorities in the executable partial process list registered by the registration section.

Abstract: An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. A processing unit performs updating processing and imparting processing, the updating processing for updating image processing which is executed by each object of the object group to partial processing which performs image processing on division image data representing a division image obtained by dividing an input image represented by input image data into plural partial regions, and the imparting processing for imparting a dependency relationship between pieces of the partial processing of the objects connected to each other. A controller performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute, in parallel, the updating processing and the imparting processing by the processing unit and the partial processing which becomes executable based on the dependency relationship.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that executes image processing using an object group in which plural objects that perform image processing with respect to input image data stored in a storage region and output output image data are connected to each other is provided. The apparatus includes: a determination section that determines whether performing overwriting on the input image data using the output image data is possible according to each piece of processing content of the image processing; a controller that performs a setting for setting a storage region of the output image data of the image processing as a region including a storage region in which the input image data on which the overwriting is possible is stored, and performs a control for executing the image processing using the object group, with respect to the image processing for which it is determined that the overwriting is possible.

Abstract: An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. The image processing device includes: a division unit that divides image data as an image processing target into division image data having a first size; a subdivision unit that subdivides the division image data into subdivision image data having a second size smaller than the first size for each partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the division image data, the division image data corresponding to the partial processing which is determined as executable processing based on a pre-and-post dependency relationship; and a control unit that performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute subdivision partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the subdivision image data, in parallel.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a control device that transfers data that is a processing target and a control command, a processing device that is provided outside the control device and performs processing according to the control command after the control command is transferred from the control device, and a planning device that determines a division size of the data such that a difference between a transfer time to transfer divided data from the control device to the processing device and a processing time to process the divided data in the processing device falls within a predetermined range, on the basis of an amount of data, the transfer time, and the processing time, wherein the divided data obtained by dividing the data according to the division size determined by the planning device is transferred to the processing device.

Abstract: A computer that functions as an image processing apparatus that includes a plurality of processor cores extracts, from an object group in which a plurality of image processing modules for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, a plurality of image processing modules that are serially connected to each other, and causes the same processor core among the plurality of processor cores to execute image processing in each of the plurality of extracted image processing modules.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs a partial process with respect to each piece of divided image data obtained by dividing an input image expressed by input image data into partial regions using each object of an object group in which plural objects for executing image processing are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form, including: an assignment section that assigns a dependency relationship of processes to the partial processes between the connected the objects and assigns a priority to each partial process; a registration section that arranges executable partial processes on the basis of the dependency relationship in accordance with the assigned priorities and registers the result in an executable partial process list; and an execution section that executes the partial processes in a descending order of the priorities in the executable partial process list registered by the registration section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that executes image processing using an object group in which plural objects that perform image processing with respect to input image data stored in a storage region and output output image data are connected to each other is provided. The apparatus includes: a determination section that determines whether performing overwriting on the input image data using the output image data is possible according to each piece of processing content of the image processing; a controller that performs a setting for setting a storage region of the output image data of the image processing as a region including a storage region in which the input image data on which the overwriting is possible is stored, and performs a control for executing the image processing using the object group, with respect to the image processing for which it is determined that the overwriting is possible.

Abstract: An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. A processing unit performs updating processing and imparting processing, the updating processing for updating image processing which is executed by each object of the object group to partial processing which performs image processing on division image data representing a division image obtained by dividing an input image represented by input image data into plural partial regions, and the imparting processing for imparting a dependency relationship between pieces of the partial processing of the objects connected to each other. A controller performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute, in parallel, the updating processing and the imparting processing by the processing unit and the partial processing which becomes executable based on the dependency relationship.

Abstract: An image processing device executes image processing by each object of an object group in which plural objects are connected to each other in a directed acyclic graph form. The image processing device includes: a division unit that divides image data as an image processing target into division image data having a first size; a subdivision unit that subdivides the division image data into subdivision image data having a second size smaller than the first size for each partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the division image data, the division image data corresponding to the partial processing which is determined as executable processing based on a pre-and-post dependency relationship; and a control unit that performs control for causing plural computation devices to execute subdivision partial processing which is image processing to be performed on the subdivision image data, in parallel.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a control device that transfers data that is a processing target and a control command, a processing device that is provided outside the control device and performs processing according to the control command after the control command is transferred from the control device, and a planning device that determines a division size of the data such that a difference between a transfer time to transfer divided data from the control device to the processing device and a processing time to process the divided data in the processing device falls within a predetermined range, on the basis of an amount of data, the transfer time, and the processing time, wherein the divided data obtained by dividing the data according to the division size determined by the planning device is transferred to the processing device.