Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Takeguchi

Tomoyuki Takeguchi 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: 9892526
    Abstract: A radiotherapy apparatus includes an receiver receiving a first projection image of a calibration object under X-ray imaging; a storing portion storing an ideal projection image of the calibration object, the ideal projection image generated based on design information of an X-ray imaging structure, positional information of the calibration object, and volume data of the calibration object; a calculator calculating a transformation parameter for transforming the first projection image into an ideal projection image; a transformed image generator generating a transformed projection image of the patient by transforming a second projection image of a patient obtained under X-ray imaging with the transformation parameter; a reconstructed image generator generating a reconstructed projection image based on volume data of the patient, positional information of the patient, and the design information; and a matching image generator generating a matching reference image used for matching between the transformed proje
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryusuke Hirai, Yukinobu Sakata, Yasunori Taguchi, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Shinichiro Mori, Fumi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 9830718
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, an image processor includes an image generator, a region acquirer, and a label applicator. The region acquirer acquires at least one two-dimensional region designated on at least one first perspective image generated from three-dimensional volume data of a target. The label applicator applies a label on at least one first three-dimensional region. The at least one first three-dimensional region is a part of a second three-dimensional region. The second three-dimensional region is defined by the at least one two-dimensional region, a point and a surface which is defined by a set of straight lines between the point and the boundary of the two-dimensional region. The first three-dimensional region is defined to be a first overlapping region where the three-dimensional volume data and the second three-dimensional region overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryusuke Hirai, Yukinobu Sakata, Yasunori Taguchi, Tomoyuki Takeguchi
  • Patent number: 9797972
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate, from three-dimensional medical image data, a first cross-sectional image and a second cross-sectional image intersecting the first cross-sectional image and is configured to change display locations of the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image on a display, in conjunction with a change in an intersecting location of the first and the second cross-sectional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Masahiro Sekine
  • Patent number: 9786054
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a medical image processing device includes a processor, and a memory. The memory that stores processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute acquiring a first perspective image of a subject viewed in a first direction; setting a first region and a second region on the first perspective image, the first region including a first group of pixels around a target pixel, the second region including a second group of pixels, the second group including a pixel not included in the first group; calculating a likelihood of the target pixel, wherein the likelihood increases as a difference between pixel values included in the first group decreases and a difference between pixel values of the first group and the second group increases; and detecting a position of an object in the subject based on the likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasunori Taguchi, Takeshi Mita, Ryusuke Hirai, Kyoka Sugiura, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Yukinobu Sakata
  • Patent number: 9760263
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a receiver, a determiner, and a generator. The receiver is configured to receive a three-dimensional position in a coordinate system of three-dimensional data including an object. The determiner is configured to determine placement of a three-dimensional pointer having a first 3D shape and a second 3D shape positioned around the first 3D shape so that a position of the first 3D shape corresponds to the received three-dimensional position. The generator is configured to generate a stereoscopic image representing the three-dimensional pointer and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nakaba Kogure, Reiko Noda, Taichiro Shiodera, Yoshiyuki Kokojima
  • Publication number: 20170245832
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains time-series data having complex values based on a reflected wave of an ultrasound wave transmitted by an ultrasound probe and calculates an expansion coefficient in a case in which the obtained time-series data is expressed as a linear sum of a plurality of mathematical functions, the time-series data having, as an argument, a first parameter related to time. The plurality of mathematical functions are mathematical functions that are possible to be generated on a basis of a function family that has, as arguments, the first parameter and a second parameter different from the first parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWATA, Toshiyuki ONO, Toshimitsu KANEKO, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Ryota OSUMI, Tomohisa IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 9746535
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit, a detecting unit, a deriving unit, and an imaging controller. The acquiring unit acquires three-dimensional image data including a target organ. The detecting unit detects an upper end position and a lower end position of the target organ in the three-dimensional image data. The deriving unit derives an imaging range of subsequent imaging performed after acquisition of the three-dimensional image data based on the upper end position and the lower end position of the target organ. The imaging controller controls performance of the subsequent imaging in accordance with the imaging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Shigehide Kuhara
  • Patent number: 9734574
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, an image processor of an embodiment has an imaging parameter acquirer and a virtual perspective image generator. The imaging parameter acquirer acquires an imaging parameter which is used by a radiographic imaging apparatus in capturing a perspective image of a target. The virtual perspective image generator determines a method of generating a virtual perspective image from volume data acquired by capturing the target in accordance with the imaging parameter. The virtual perspective image generator generates the virtual perspective image from the volume data in accordance with the determined method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kyoka Sugiura, Yukinobu Sakata, Ryusuke Hirai, Yasunori Taguchi, Takeshi Mita, Tomoyuki Takeguchi
  • Patent number: 9693706
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a specifying unit and a deriving unit. The specifying unit specifies a fluid region in a plurality of magnetic resonance images that are acquired by applying a labeling pulse to a label region and that are mutually related. The deriving unit derives an index indicating dynamics of a fluid on the basis of the specified fluid region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichiro Shiodera, Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170127972
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, frames of section image data including a heart are acquired from an object by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Spatial positional information of a reference section of the heart is calculated based on the frames of section image data. A reference section image of the heart is displayed and positioning of an imaging part for diagnostic imaging is set using the displayed reference section image of the heart. Diagnostic imaging as defined by the set positioning information is then performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Shigehide KUHARA, Shuhei NITTA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Nobuyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170124706
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates an image based on a magnetic resonance signal from a subject. The processing circuitry generates a susceptibility image representing magnetic susceptibility of the subject from a phase component contained in a plurality of pixels in the image. The processing circuitry generates an artifact component of the susceptibility image based on a frequency signal obtained by frequency transform of the susceptibility image. The processing circuitry generates an artifact component-removed susceptibility image by removing the artifact component from a susceptibility image generated based on the magnetic resonance signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Taichiro SHIODERA, Takamasa SUGIURA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Masao YUI, Naotaka SAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20170124707
    Abstract: A magnetic-resonance imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes acquiring circuitry and processing circuitry. The acquiring circuitry acquires a magnetic resonance signal that is generated from a subject. The processing circuitry creates a phase image based on the magnetic resonance signal. The processing circuitry sets a combination of a plurality of filters that are used to remove a phase variation derived from a background magnetic field according to a region in the phase image. The processing circuitry removes a phase variation derived from the background magnetic field from the phase image by using the combination of the filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa SUGIURA, Taichiro SHIODERA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Yasunori TAGUCHI, Naotaka SAKASHITA, Masao YUI
  • Patent number: 9616250
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a treatment system includes a plurality of first radiators, a plurality of detectors, a determiner, and a controller. Each of the first radiators irradiates a radioactive beam to a subject. Each of the detectors detects a radioactive beam transmitted through the subject and generates an image based on the detected radioactive beam. The determiner determines whether an object in the subject is included in a first region using a given image that is one of the images. The controller controls the first radiators so that, when the object is not included in the first region, a smaller amount of radioactive beams is irradiated per unit time than when the object is included in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasunori Taguchi, Takeshi Mita, Yukinobu Sakata, Tomoyuki Takeguchi
  • Publication number: 20170097399
    Abstract: According to one of embodiments, an MRI apparatus includes at least one receiving coil configured to receive magnetic resonance signals from an object; and processing circuitry configured to generate an image based on the magnetic resonance signals, calculate a weighting map of the image based on at least one of a sensitivity characteristic of the receiving coil and a distance from a magnetic field center, and generate a quantitative susceptibility image, which quantitatively indicates magnetic susceptibility inside a body, from the image by using the weighting map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichiro SHIODERA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9591988
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a MRI apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a reference section information calculating unit, a positioning unit and an imaging unit. The acquisition unit acquires frames of section image data including a heart from an object with use of magnetic resonance. The reference section information calculating unit calculates spatial positional information of a reference section of the heart based on the frames of the section image data. The positioning unit displays a reference section image of the heart on a display unit and performs positioning of an imaging part for imaging through the displayed reference section image of the heart. The reference section image is calculated from the frames of the section image data based on the positional information of the reference section. The imaging unit images the imaging part set by the positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehide Kuhara, Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170046856
    Abstract: A radiotherapy apparatus includes an receiver receiving a first projection image of a calibration object under X-ray imaging; a storing portion storing an ideal projection image of the calibration object, the ideal projection image generated based on design information of an X-ray imaging structure, positional information of the calibration object, and volume data of the calibration object; a calculator calculating a transformation parameter for transforming the first projection image into an ideal projection image; a transformed image generator generating a transformed projection image of the patient by transforming a second projection image of a patient obtained under X-ray imaging with the transformation parameter; a reconstructed image generator generating a reconstructed projection image based on volume data of the patient, positional information of the patient, and the design information; and a matching image generator generating a matching reference image used for matching between the transformed proje
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryusuke HIRAI, Yukinobu SAKATA, Yasunori TAGUCHI, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Shinichiro MORI, Fumi MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9524551
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an extracting unit and a controlling unit. The extracting unit extracts, from a group of volume data, reference image data corresponding to ultrasound image data displayed on a display unit. The controlling unit causes the display unit to display the ultrasound image data and the reference image data. The extracting unit obtains information about an imaging region indicated by the ultrasound image data displayed on the display unit and sets a search region for searching the reference image data from the group of volume data, on a basis of the obtained information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Reiko Noda, Taichiro Shiodera
  • Publication number: 20160349975
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to accept an operation for a region of interest (ROI) GUI and a guide GUI on a screen on which a medical image is displayed, the ROI GUI being for setting a ROI on the medical image, the guide GUI being for guiding a setting of the ROI on the medical image. The processing circuitry is configured to decide whether to move the ROI GUI and the guide GUI in a manner interlocked with each other or not according to a preset condition, when a turning operation or a sliding operation for any one of the ROI GUI and the guide GUI is accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa SUGIURA, Kensuke Shinoda, Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi
  • Publication number: 20160334486
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sequence control unit, an image generating unit, and a deriving unit. The sequence control unit executes first imaging scan for acquiring data of a range including a target internal organ and second imaging scan for acquiring data for a diagnostic image by controlling execution of a pulse sequence. The image generating unit generates an image by using data acquired by the first imaging scan. The deriving unit derives an imaging scan area in which data for the diagnostic image are acquired in the second imaging scan and a related area set associated with the imaging scan area in the second imaging scan, based on image processing using the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Shigehide KUHARA, Shuhei NITTA, Taichiro SHIODERA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160238682
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquiring unit, a detecting unit, a deriving unit, and an imaging controller. The acquiring unit acquires three-dimensional image data including a target organ. The detecting unit detects an upper end position and a lower end position of the target organ in the three-dimensional image data. The deriving unit derives an imaging range of subsequent imaging performed after acquisition of the three-dimensional image data based on the upper end position and the lower end position of the target organ. The imaging controller controls performance of the subsequent imaging in accordance with the imaging range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Shuhei NITTA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Nobuyuki MATSUMOTO, Shigehide KUHARA