Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for activating helper T cells, which includes the step of activating helper T cells by adding a WT1 peptide to antigen presenting cells, wherein the WT1 peptide has the ability to bind to any MHC class II molecule of an HLA-DRB1* 0101 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 0401 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 0403 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 0406 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 0803 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 0901 molecule, an HLA-DRB1* 1101 molecule, an HLA-DRB3* 0202 molecule, an HLA-DRB4* 0101 molecule, an HLA-DPB1* 0201 molecule or an HLA-DPB1* 0301 molecule, and the like.

Abstract: In order to provide an image processing device which can select and apply an optimal processing algorithm among a plurality of processing algorithms depending on a part of a processing target image and a processing purpose, reference characteristic curve data is calculated in which pixel values are integrated centered on a centroid of a region of interest for a reference image, and the reference characteristic curve data and a processing algorithm according to a processing purpose are stored in advance in an algorithm table 2 in correlation with each other at least for each part.

Abstract: An image diagnostic support device is configured to acquire a tomographic image including a lung region of an object to be examined and is provided with image display to display the tomographic image. The device is also configured to set up a measurement range, extract the chest wall from the image in the set measurement range, extract a thickened portion incidental to the chest wall in the measurement range, and measure the thickness of a thickened portion at each position in the measurement range.

Abstract: An image processing device 100 divides a hollow organ 50 extracted from a volume image 40 using a plurality of planes 20 including an arbitrary eye vector 23 or a plurality of planes along the centerline of the hollow organ 50, transforms the coordinates of a point inside the hollow organ 50 along a predetermined convex surface set outside the hollow organ 50 on each plane 20, and gives a pixel value of an original position to a corresponding point after the coordinate transformation. Then, a folded volume image is generated by combining the respective planes 20 in a reverse procedure of the division procedure, and a shaded folded three-dimensional image 90 is generated by projecting the folded volume image to a projection surface from the arbitrary viewing direction and is displayed on a display device 107.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel transfer vector and a recombinant baculovirus; methods for the production thereof; pharmaceuticals containing the recombinant baculovirus as an active ingredient, which are useful as preventive or therapeutic drugs for infectious diseases such as malaria and influenza; and methods for preventing and treating infectious diseases such as malaria and influenza. More specifically, the invention provides a recombinant transfer vector capable of expressing a foreign gene fused to a virus gene under the control of a dual promoter; a recombinant baculovirus; methods for the production thereof; pharmaceuticals containing the recombinant baculovirus as an active ingredient; and methods for preventing and treating infectious diseases such as malaria and influenza comprising administrating the recombinant baculovirus to patients.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for reducing noise in a medical image, wherein plural anisotropic areas continuous with a pixel-of-interest contained in the medical image are set with the pixel-of-interest being centered a statistical amount of pixel values of pixels constituting each anisotropic area is calculated with respect to each of the plural anisotropic areas, and either an anisotropic area having the minimum statistical amount out of the plural anisotropic areas is determined and an anisotropic shape filter in the same direction as the anisotropic area concerned is constructed, or an anisotropic area having the maximum statistical amount out of the plural anisotropic areas is determined and an anisotropic shape filter is constructed by clockwise or counterclockwise rotating the anisotropic area concerned around the pixel-of-interest by 90° .

Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the invention comprises reading section (11a) which reads in an image data set of a subject acquired by a medical imaging apparatus (2) from a data recording device (13) which stores the image data set; input sections (16, 17) which input a desired object organ to the read-in image data set; object organ extracting section (11b) which extracts the inputted object organ; reference position setting section (11h) which sets a reference position for producing an unfolded image in the circumferential direction of the bore of the extracted object organ; calculating device (11e) which calculates pixel information in the circumferential direction of the bore of the object organ from the set reference position; and image display section (15) which displays the calculated pixel information in the circumferential direction of the bore of the object organ.

Abstract: An image diagnosis support device 10 includes an image acquisition section 61 which acquires a tomographic image including a desired organ of an object from a medical image scanning apparatus 2 or a magnetic disk 13; a reference region extraction section 62 which extracts a reference region representing a reference in the organ of interest from the tomographic image acquired by the image acquisition section 61; an organ region extraction section 63 which extracts an organ region representing a region of the organ of interest from the tomographic image acquired by the image acquisition section 61; an organ shape information calculation section 64 which calculates organ shape information regarding the shape of the organ of interest from the reference region extracted by the reference region extraction section 62 and the organ region extracted by the organ region extraction section 63; and display control section 11 which displays on a monitor 15, which is a display device, the organ shape information calculated

Abstract: An electric blower includes an electric motor, a first fan, a second fan, a first casing and a second casing. The electric motor includes a motor body and a rotation shaft extending from the motor body only on one axial side of the motor body. The first fan is located to the one axial side of the motor body and defines a first axis of rotation aligned with the rotation shaft. The second fan is located to the one axial side of the motor body and further than the first fan from the motor body in an axial direction. The second fan defines a second axis of rotation aligned with the rotation shaft. The first fan and the second fan are driven by a driving force generated by the electric motor. The first fan is disposed in the first casing. The second fan is disposed in the second casing.

Abstract: A medical image display device is configured to set first reference information for starting extraction of a desired region on a medical image displayed on a display and second reference information for terminating the region extraction, generate a marker with finite size indicating execution information on a region extraction process in the direction from the first reference information to the second reference information, and control display of the marker and a region of interest on the display by associating it with the medical image. For example, the marker is shifted and set, and the shape of the region of interest is changed so as to contact the marker after being shifted.

Abstract: A diagnostic imaging support system includes input means (15) for setting a characteristic quantity for performing a predetermined threshold processing for a bone region in an image of a subject; control means (10) for reading out the image from storage means (11) which stores the image of the subject, extracting a diagnostic region including the bone region from the read image on the basis of the characteristic quantity set by the input means, and calculating, for the extracted diagnostic region, structure analysis information of the bone by use of component identification information representing a bone portion component and a component other than the bone portion; and display means (14) for displaying the calculated structure analysis information of the bone while relating it to the image of the subject.

Abstract: A medical image display apparatus of the present invention is used in a medical image display system having a function of preparing three-dimensional image data on a subject including a plurality of luminal organs and displaying the prepared three-dimensional image data on a display (15) as a three-dimensional image.

Abstract: An overwrap packed body is obtained by heating and shrinking a wrapping material in a condition that five drink products collectively wrapped by the wrapping material. Three perforated lines passing through gap portions between the adjacent drink products are formed on the wrapping material at an interval of 2 mm in parallel. When the three perforated line portions are pushed with fingers in the gap portion between the adjacent drink products, the wrapping material torn from the pushed portion in a vertical direction. Thus, the packed drink products DG can be easily taken out one by one.

Abstract: In a medical image display device for displaying a hollow organ of an examinee as a panoramic image, in order to inform an operator of the existence or nonexistence of a blind area in a panoramic image, the medical image display device has a panoramic image creating unit configured to create a panoramic image of a hollow organ of an examinee and a display unit configured to display the panoramic image, and further has a blind area detecting unit configured to detect a blind area in the panoramic image and an informing unit configured to inform an operator of the existence or nonexistence of the blind portion.

Abstract: An image diagnosis support apparatus according to the invention comprises an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image; an abnormal shadow candidate detecting device which detects an abnormal shadow candidate based on the figured-out adipose distribution data; and a display device which displays the abnormal shadow candidate detected by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device and the medical image in a manner of being related to each other.

Abstract: A rubber composition for use in tires is described which provides increased fuel efficiency and improved wet grip performance. The rubber composition includes from 5 to 70 parts by mass of silica having a BET specific surface area from 50 to 200 m2/g per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber. The rubber composition includes from 1 to 25 parts by mass of an aromatic modified terpene resin and at least one terpene per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber. The rubber composition further includes from 1 to 70 parts by mass of a naphthenic oil per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, where a CN % proportion of a CA %·CP %·CN % ratio calculated according to ASTM D2140/ASTM D3238 is the greatest and the CA % proportion is less than 15%, and a dynamic viscosity at 40° C. is from 17 to 30 mm2/sec.

Abstract: A region-extraction method for extracting a contour of a desired region is provided. The method includes: a step (a) for displaying an image; a step (b) for selecting a desired region in the image; a step (c) for selecting an element graphic corresponding at least a partial contour in a partial region in the desired region; a step (d) for approximating the contour of a part of the element image to at least a partial contour in the partial region; a step (e) for repeating the steps (c) to (d) at least twice; and a step (f) for making a first contour by combining at least a part of elements after the approximation.

Abstract: Changing of setting of a predetermined function or file that is selected is controlled only be performing fingerprint authentication while data regarding the predetermined function or file is displayed on a display unit. While data regarding a function arbitrarily selected by an input unit from a plurality of functions is displayed on the display unit, a control unit authenticates a user based on fingerprint information representing a fingerprint pattern read by a fingerprint sensor and registered fingerprint information pre-stored in a fingerprint information area. If the authentication is successful, the control unit changes a “user restriction flag” associated with the function selected by the input unit in protection setting information stored in a user restriction flag storage area to an effective state or an ineffective state.

Abstract: A pair of static magnetic field generating means disposed so as to sandwich a space in which an examination target is disposed, magnetic field generating means that applies high-frequency magnetic field and gradient magnetic field to an examination target disposed in the static magnetic field, and reception means that receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by the examination target are provided. The reception means has a predetermined coil pattern, and contains a reception coil which can be formed in a cylindrical shape. The reception coil has a flexible portion and a rigid portion which are alternately arranged along the peripheral direction when it is designed in a cylindrical shape, and the flexible portion has a flexible board on which a part of the predetermined coil pattern is mounted, and a bubble-containing organic resin portion covering both the surfaces of the flexible board.

Abstract: A medical image diagnosing support method is provided that includes a site region extracting step for obtaining a tomographic image which is picked up by a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and extracting a predetermined site region from the obtained tomographic image, a first region extracting step for extracting a first lesion candidate region from the site region based on pixel values of the site region extracted in the predetermined site region extracting step, a second region extracting step for extracting a second lesion candidate region from the site region based on a distribution of the pixel values of the site region extracted in the predetermined site region extracting step, and a region correcting step for correcting the first lesion candidate region extracted in the first region extracting step by using the second lesion candidate region extracted in the second region extracting step.