Patents by Inventor Ryoichi NAGAE

Ryoichi NAGAE 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: 11515031
    Abstract: A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to determine a position of a feature point of a device in a first X-ray image, and generate a superimposed image in which a 3D model expressing the device is superimposed on the first X-ray image or a second X-ray image that is acquired later than the first X-ray image. The processing circuitry is configured to superimpose the 3D model on the first X-ray image or the second X-ray image at a position based on the position of the feature point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Takaya, Ryoichi Nagae, Sho Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220031277
    Abstract: A medical information processing device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a plurality of X-ray images including a device inserted into a body of a subject, suppress movement of a characteristic portion characterized in a shape that is positioned distant from a distal end of the device among the X-ray images, and output the X-ray images in which movement of the characteristic portion is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Yusaku AIZAWA, Kodai HIRAYAMA, Ryoichi NAGAE, Tomoki FUJITO
  • Patent number: 11151726
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to acquire a plurality of time series medical images; to determine a feature point in each of the plurality of medical images to calculate moving amounts of the determined feature point between the plurality of medical images; to set a weight coefficient with respect to each of the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the calculated moving amounts; and to perform an image processing process by using the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the weight coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Sho Sasaki, Mika Takaya
  • Patent number: 11116464
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a plurality of X-ray images over time based on X-rays having passed through a subject injected with a contrast agent, to calculate a blood vessel region corresponding to an inflow path of the contrast agent leading to a predetermined position in the blood vessel region, based on a temporal transition of signal intensities of the contrast agent in the blood vessel region represented in the X-ray images, and to perform control to display the blood vessel region corresponding to the inflow path in a display mode that is different from that of a blood vessel region other than the inflow path on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Takaya, Shingo Abe, Ko Fuchigami, Ryoichi Nagae, Takuya Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210145386
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage, an imaging equipment, a display, an input interface, and processing circuitry. The storage memorizes medical images. The imaging equipment includes an X-ray tube configured to emit X-rays toward a subject and a detector configured to detect X-rays emitted from the X-ray tube. The display displays a plurality of medical images including X-ray images captured by the imaging equipment. The input interface accepts an operation instructing storage of a medical image displayed on the display. The processing circuitry identifies a medical image associated with a last-executed, targeted operation, among targeted operations related to any of medical images displayed on the display, and, when the input interface has accepted an operation instructing storage of a medical image displayed on the display, causes the storage to memorize the identified medical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Ryoichi NAGAE, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yoshiyasu HAYASHI, Shumpei OHASHI, Tomoki FUJITO
  • Publication number: 20210133969
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain an image capturing a space in which a manipulation is being performed on an examined subject and non-image information related to at least one of the manipulation, the examined subject, or the space. Also, the processing circuitry is configured to detect a situation having a high possibility for an occurrence of an abnormality in the space, on the basis of the obtained image, the obtained non-image information, and first correspondence information. The first correspondence information indicates a correspondence relationship between two or more images capturing the space, non-image information, and abnormalities having a high possibility of occurring in the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Ryoichi NAGAE, Shingo ABE, Hisato TAKEMOTO, Takuya SAKAGUCHI, Fumimasa SHIGE, Tomoki FUJITO
  • Patent number: 10762634
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sequentially acquires image data of time-sequential DSA images of an object, and acquires a parameter value for each pixel based on temporal change of a pixel value of the each pixel corresponding to the same region of the object in the sequentially acquired image data of time-sequential DSA images. Further, the processing circuitry sequentially generates image data of parameter images in such a manner that identification information according to the parameter value is assigned to the each pixel corresponding to the same region of the object, each time image data of a DSA image of the latest time phase being acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Yasuto Hayatsu, Yoshiaki Iijima, Naoki Uchida, Yoshinori Shimizu, Yuichiro Watanabe, Takuya Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10736598
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a fixed object included in chronologically collected X-ray images and having a substantially fixed position. The processing circuitry detects a target object included in each of the X-ray images, on the basis of extraction results of the fixed object. The processing circuitry generates a plurality of corrected images by a correction process to substantially match, with a reference position, the detected position of the target object in an X-ray image other than a reference X-ray image, the reference position being the detected position of the target object in the reference X-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Masahiro Ozawa, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10485500
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires two medical images, a moving distance of a region of interest between the medical images corresponding to a distance derived from a parallax angle. The processing circuitry causes a display to display a stereoscopic image based on the medical images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Yasuto Hayatsu, Yoshiaki Iijima, Takuya Sakaguchi, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190320992
    Abstract: The X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: generate an X-ray image of an object by irradiating the object with X-rays; acquire an evaluation result of at least one of elasticity evaluation of a blood vessel of the object and thickness evaluation of a wall of the blood vessel of the object; generate a superimposed image in which the evaluation result is superimposed on the X-ray image; and display the superimposed image on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KOYAKUMARU, Nobuhide OOI, Koji ANDO, Mitsuo AKIYAMA, Sayaka TAKAHASHI, Ryoichi NAGAE, Minori IZUMI, Takayuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190318823
    Abstract: A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to determine a position of a feature point of a device in a first X-ray image, and generate a superimposed image in which a 3D model expressing the device is superimposed on the first X-ray image or a second X-ray image that is acquired later than the first X-ray image. The processing circuitry is configured to superimpose the 3D model on the first X-ray image or the second X-ray image at a position based on the position of the feature point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Mika TAKAYA, Ryoichi NAGAE, Sho SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190239859
    Abstract: The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to display an ultrasonic image and a non-ultrasonic medical image to a display. The processing circuitry is configured to determine which of a displayed ultrasonic image and a displayed non-ultrasonic medical image is live. The processing circuitry is configured to inform information indicating which any one of the displayed ultrasonic image and the displayed non-ultrasonic medical image is live in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayaka TAKAHASHI, Ryoichi Nagae, Nobuhide Ooi, Mitsuo Akiyama, Koji Ando, Minori Izumi, Takashi Koyakumaru
  • Publication number: 20190213741
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to acquire a plurality of time series medical images: to determine a feature point in each of the plurality of medical images to calculate moving amounts of the determined feature point between the plurality of medical images; to set a weight coefficient with respect to each of the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the calculated moving amounts; and to perform an image processing process by using the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the weight coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi NAGAE, Sho SASAKI, Mika TAKAYA
  • Patent number: 10307125
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a parameter value representing temporal information on blood flow for each pixel of multiple image data items, and generates a parameter image by determining a pixel value of each pixel according to the parameter value representing the temporal information on blood flow. The processing circuitry further generates a composite image of an X-ray fluoroscopic image of an object obtained in real time and a road map image using at least a part of the parameter image, and causes a display to display the composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Yasuto Hayatsu, Yoshiaki Iijima, Naoki Uchida, Yuichiro Watanabe, Takuya Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10278667
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes an image generator, a detection unit, and an irradiation control unit. The image generator successively generates X-ray images based on X-rays emitted from an X-ray tube and transmitted through a subject. The detection unit detects a position of a predetermined target included in the successively generated X-ray images. The irradiation control unit identifies, based on the detected position of the predetermined target, a region in which the predetermined target can be visualized in the X-ray images, and performs control to reduce an X-ray irradiation dose to a region other than the identified region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Iijima, Ryoichi Nagae, Yasuto Hayatsu, Kunio Shiraishi, Yoshinori Shimizu, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10271804
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the X-ray image diagnosis apparatus comprises an X-ray generator, an X-ray restriction unit, a first X-ray detector, a second X-ray detector, and a drive. The X-ray generator generates X-rays to be applied to a subject. The X-ray restriction unit is disposed between the subject and the X-ray generator to restrict X-rays outside an opening region which is formed using a metal plate. The first X-ray detector has a first detection region in which X-rays that pass through the subject are detected. The second X-ray detector has a second detection region which is smaller than the first detection region and which has a high spatial resolution. The drive moves the first and second X-ray detectors so that the second detection region includes an irradiation region of the subject formed by the opening region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Ohga, Jun Okada, Satoru Esashi, Toshio Muroi, Nobuo Ogura, Masanori Gunji, Yasuto Hayatsu, Ryoichi Nagae, Yoshiaki Iijima
  • Patent number: 10130324
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image analysis device includes a parameter value acquisition unit, a color allocation unit and a time phase image generation unit. The parameter value acquisition unit acquires a parameter value per pixel, on the basis of time variation of pixel values per pixel corresponding to the same region of an object in image data of a plurality of sequential DSA images. The color allocation unit generates a color map in which a (chromatic) color in accordance with the parameter value is allocated per pixel corresponding to the same region of the object. The time phase image generation unit generates color image data of time phase images respectively corresponding to a plurality of time phases, by reflecting information in accordance with pixel values of the DSA images to each pixel of the color map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Yoshinori Shimizu, Nobuo Kobayashi, Keisuke Nakamura, Kunio Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20180279986
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a fixed object included in chronologically collected X-ray images and having a substantially fixed position. The processing circuitry detects a target object included in each of the X-ray images, on the basis of extraction results of the fixed object. The processing circuitry generates a plurality of corrected images by a correction process to substantially match, with a reference position, the detected position of the target object in an X-ray image other than a reference X-ray image, the reference position being the detected position of the target object in the reference X-ray image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Masahiro Ozawa, Yuichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10068320
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire correction information on a luminance value of a contrast image, based on concentration of a contrast material and thickness of the contrast material in a projection direction in a device that is inserted into a blood vessel, in the contrast image. The processing circuitry is configured to correct the contrast image using the correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Sakaguchi, Haruki Iwai, Ryoichi Nagae
  • Patent number: 10022103
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray generator, processing circuitry, and a display unit. The X-ray generator radiates an X-ray. The processing circuitry obtains an exposure dose of a subject due to the X-ray radiated from the X-ray generator and generates an image in which a dose distribution based on the exposure dose is superimposed on a three-dimensional model representing the subject. The display unit displays the image. The processing circuitry generates an image in which the dose distribution on a body surface on a rear side when observed in a first view direction, serving as a direction in which the three-dimensional model is displayed, is visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Watanabe, Naoki Uchida, Ryoichi Nagae