Patents by Inventor NORITSUGU MATSUTANI
NORITSUGU MATSUTANI 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).
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Patent number: 11915418Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a hardware processor. The hardware processor: obtains a static image and a dynamic image of a same subject by radiographic imaging; detects, on the static image, a first analysis target area; detects, on the dynamic image, a second analysis target area corresponding to the first analysis target area; analyzes the second analysis target area of the dynamic image to generate a functional information representative from change caused by biological motion; deforms and positions the second analysis target area so that the second analysis target area corresponds to the first analysis target area; overlays the functional information representative of the deformed and positioned second analysis target area on the static image.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20230263495Abstract: A pulmonary embolism diagnosis support apparatus includes a hardware processor that: obtains a dynamic image of a chest of an examinee captured through radiographic dynamic imaging; analyzes blood flow in the dynamic image to generate blood flow information; generates background lungs information regarding background lungs of the examinee; automatically generates diagnosis support information regarding pulmonary embolism, based on the blood flow information and the background lungs information; and outputs the diagnosis support information regarding pulmonary embolism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Takenori Fukumoto, Noritsugu Matsutani, Yuzo Yamasaki, Kohtaro Abe, Kazuya Hosokawa, Takeshi Kamitani, Tomoyuki Hida, Kousei Ishigami
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Patent number: 11730907Abstract: Provided is an image analysis apparatus including a hardware processor that analyzes at least one dynamic radiograph formed from a plurality of two-dimensional images acquired by radiographing dynamics of a subject including a trachea and/or a bronchus to measure a feature amount representing a stenotic state of the trachea and/or the bronchus, and estimates the stenotic state of the trachea and/or the bronchus based on a result of the measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20230260118Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Noritsugu MATSUTANI, Sumiya NAGATSUKA, Yuki KAWANA
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Patent number: 11676271Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Noritsugu Matsutani, Sumiya Nagatsuka, Yuki Kawana
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Patent number: 11484221Abstract: Provided is a dynamic analysis apparatus that predicts a respiratory function value based on frame images showing dynamics of chest. The dynamic analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor that obtains a first lung size value of a removal target site and a second lung size value of a left or right lung field including the removal target site, calculates a proportion between the first and second lung size values as a size proportion, calculates a first feature amount concerning respiratory function of the left or right lung field including the removal target site and a second feature amount concerning respiratory function of the lung fields as a whole, calculates a proportion between the first and second feature amounts as a feature amount proportion, and calculates an expected rate of the respiratory function without the removal target site, based on a product of the size proportion and the feature amount proportion.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani, Jun Hanaoka
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Publication number: 20220309658Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a hardware processor that obtains frame images showing a dynamic state of a subject; and a display that displays accessory information indicating a movement decrease region with respect to the obtained frame images, the accessory information being superimposed on consecutive frame images of the frame images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Naotoshi Sugegaya, Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20220309684Abstract: A dynamic image control apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains a plurality of frame images showing a dynamic state of a subject, identifies, from the plurality of frame images, a movement decrease region of a predetermined structure by user input or detection from the plurality of frame images, and performs control to attach accessory information to the plurality of frame images. The accessory information indicates the movement decrease region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Naotoshi SUGEGAYA, Kenta SHIMAMURA, Noritsugu MATSUTANI
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Publication number: 20220309660Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: an input-output interface that obtains medical images of a same target region taken through serial radiography along a time axis; and a hardware processor that: executes a time-series replay display of the medical images obtained by the input-output interface, and displays a position reference at a fixed position on a screen, the position reference being superimposed on each of the medical images during the replay display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Naotoshi Sugegaya, Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20220301170Abstract: A dynamic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor; and an ouputter. The hardware processor obtains a dynamic image of a chest portion obtained by dynamic imaging by radiation. The hardware processor performs a first generating process in which information regarding pleural adhesion is generated based on a motion amount in a region including at least a region adjacent to a rib cage in a lung region in the dynamic image. The outputter outputs the generated information regarding the pleural adhesion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Noritsugu MATSUTANI, Tatsuya TAKAGI, Kenta SHIMAMURA
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Patent number: 11410312Abstract: A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device. The hardware processor obtains a cycle of temporal change in a feature amount relevant to a function to be diagnosed from each of dynamic images obtained by imaging of a dynamic state of a living body with radiation. The hardware processor further adjusts the obtained cycle, thereby generating a plurality of cycle-adjusted data having cycles of the temporal change in the feature amount being equal to one another. The hardware processor further generates difference information at each phase in the plurality of cycle-adjusted data. The output device outputs the difference information.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20210390691Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a hardware processor. The hardware processor: obtains a static image and a dynamic image of a same subject by radiographic imaging; detects, on the static image, a first analysis target area; detects, on the dynamic image, a second analysis target area corresponding to the first analysis target area; analyzes the second analysis target area of the dynamic image to generate a functional information representative from change caused by biological motion; deforms and positions the second analysis target area so that the second analysis target area corresponds to the first analysis target area; overlays the functional information representative of the deformed and positioned second analysis target area on the static image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventor: Noritsugu MATSUTANI
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Patent number: 11151715Abstract: A dynamic analysis system includes: a hardware processor that: extracts an extended lung field region formed of one region including two lungs and a region between the two lungs from a dynamic image obtained by radiography of a dynamic state of a chest of a subject; and generates an analysis result image illustrating an analysis result of a pulmonary function in the extended lung field region by analyzing the dynamic image.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20210133967Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Noritsugu MATSUTANI, Sumiya NAGATSUKA, Yuki KAWANA
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Patent number: 10977793Abstract: A dynamic analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to perform the following, calculate a prediction rate multiplied by a respiratory function value of the subject in predicting the respiratory function value when an exclusion target portion is excluded; obtain input of the exclusion target portion in an anatomical unit from the input unit, based on the anatomical unit, specify a partial region of the lung field in which a characteristic amount relating to a respiratory function in the plurality of frame images is calculated, calculate the characteristic amount related to the respiratory function in the partial region of the lung field specified from the plurality of frame images and the characteristic amount related to the respiratory function of an entire lung field, and calculate the prediction rate based on a characteristic amount ratio which is a ratio of the two calculated characteristic amounts.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20200410684Abstract: A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device. The hardware processor obtains a cycle of temporal change in a feature amount relevant to a function to be diagnosed from each of dynamic images obtained by imaging of a dynamic state of a living body with radiation. The hardware processor further adjusts the obtained cycle, thereby generating a plurality of cycle-adjusted data having cycles of the temporal change in the feature amount being equal to one another. The hardware processor further generates difference information at each phase in the plurality of cycle-adjusted data. The output device outputs the difference information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventor: Noritsugu MATSUTANI
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Patent number: 10827999Abstract: A dynamic analysis apparatus includes: an index value meter that measures, in a plurality of areas in a dynamic image obtained by performing radiography on a region including a blood vessel with respect to a subject, a temporal change of an index value regarding a position and a shape of the blood vessel; an elongation rate calculator that calculates an elongation rate of the blood vessel in each area on the basis of the temporal change of the index value in each area measured by the index value meter; and an elongation rate display that displays a list of the elongation rate in each area calculated by the elongation rate calculator.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Patent number: 10810741Abstract: A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor and an output device. The hardware processor obtains a cycle of temporal change in a feature amount relevant to a function to be diagnosed from each of dynamic images obtained by imaging of a dynamic state of a living body with radiation. The hardware processor further adjusts the obtained cycle, thereby generating a plurality of cycle-adjusted data having cycles of the temporal change in the feature amount being equal to one another. The hardware processor further generates difference information at each phase in the plurality of cycle-adjusted data. The output device outputs the difference information.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
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Publication number: 20200327665Abstract: A dynamic analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to perform the following, calculate a prediction rate multiplied by a respiratory function value of the subject in predicting the respiratory function value when an exclusion target portion is excluded; obtain input of the exclusion target portion in an anatomical unit from the input unit, based on the anatomical unit, specify a partial region of the lung field in which a characteristic amount relating to a respiratory function in the plurality of frame images is calculated, calculate the characteristic amount related to the respiratory function in the partial region of the lung field specified from the plurality of frame images and the characteristic amount related to the respiratory function of an entire lung field, and calculate the prediction rate based on a characteristic amount ratio which is a ratio of the two calculated characteristic amounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Kenta SHIMAMURA, Noritsugu MATSUTANI
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Publication number: 20200316330Abstract: Provided is an image analysis apparatus including a hardware processor that analyzes at least one dynamic radiograph formed from a plurality of two-dimensional images acquired by radiographing dynamics of a subject including a trachea and/or a bronchus to measure a feature amount representing a stenotic state of the trachea and/or the bronchus, and estimates the stenotic state of the trachea and/or the bronchus based on a result of the measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventor: Noritsugu MATSUTANI