Patents by Inventor Yoshio Iizuka

Yoshio Iizuka 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: 10475252
    Abstract: An image diagnosis assistance apparatus is configured to display a plurality of cross-sectional images on a display unit by sequentially switching the plurality of cross-sectional images; obtain user sight-line information including position information on a display screen of the display unit; and obtain a switching speed for switching the plurality of cross-sectional images. The image diagnosis assistance apparatus is configured to determine an observed area with respect to the plurality of cross-sectional images displayed on the display unit based on the obtained sight-line information and switching speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Emoto, Hiroyoshi Isoda, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10430507
    Abstract: A report creating support apparatus displays, on a display unit, an evaluation item associated with a diagnosis target and a plurality of evaluation values for the evaluation item, determines one indicated evaluation value from the plurality of evaluation values displayed, and superimposes criteria information of the indicated evaluation value and criteria information of not less than one evaluation value other than the indicated evaluation value among the plurality of evaluation values on display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kubo, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10417792
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a region acquisition unit adapted to acquire a plurality of regions of interest on a medical image of an object to be examined, a designation unit adapted to designate regions of interest to be included in the same group out of the plurality of regions of interest, wherein the designation unit designates the regions of interest based on a user's instruction, and a display control unit adapted to cause a display unit to display an individual input region used to input individual findings information for each of the plurality of regions of interest and a common input region used to input findings information common to the regions of interest included in the group. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the individual input region and the common input region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Thai Akasaka, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20180356958
    Abstract: The present invention has an objective to display information more suitable for searching for medical information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display, when a first medical information item included in a plurality of medical information items is associated with a second medical information item, an icon indicating that a medical information item related to the first medical information item is present, on a display unit in conjunction with a thumbnail of the first medical information item, wherein the display control unit performs, when the icon is selected, such control as to display a display information item indicating a relationship between the first medical information item and the second medical information item, on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Toshimizu Yamane, Yoshio Iizuka, Gakuto Aoyama, Kazuhito Oka
  • Publication number: 20180315192
    Abstract: A user had to manually select a cross-sectional image indicating features of a finding and a cross-sectional image displayed in a report, from a three-dimensional medical image. Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a unit configured to acquire a target finding of a medical image; a unit configured to calculate an image feature quantity of a type associated in advance with the target finding, for each of a plurality of cross-sectional images of the medical image; and a unit configured to identify a cross-sectional image from the plurality of cross-sectional images based on the calculated image feature quantity. Operation of selecting a cross-sectional image by a doctor can be omitted, and the burden can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yuta Nakano, Yoshio Iizuka, Kiyohide Satoh, Gakuto Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20180301215
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires, for each of a plurality of three-dimensional images, information about a position where a two-dimensional image included in the three-dimensional image is present, identifies, based on an instruction about a position of a two-dimensional image to be displayed at a display unit, a three-dimensional image to be a target of the instruction, and identifies, based on information about the position specified by the instruction, and the information about the position where the two-dimensional image is present for each of the plurality of three-dimensional images, a two-dimensional image which is included in the identified three-dimensional image, and which is to be displayed at the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshio Iizuka, Yukari Nakashoji
  • Patent number: 10068056
    Abstract: This invention provides a mechanism for making a doctor surely follow correct procedures in which the doctor confirms diagnosis information obtained by computer processing after he or she has completed interpretation. A medical diagnosis support apparatus executes diagnosis processing for acquiring medical diagnosis information from an image to be interpreted by computer processing. The medical diagnosis support apparatus accepts interpretation information as an interpretation result of the image to be interpreted, which information is input by, for example, a doctor. The medical diagnosis support apparatus calculates a degree of matching between the diagnosis information and interpretation information, and permits to present the diagnosis information acquired by the diagnosis processing when the calculated degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyasa, Yoshio Iizuka, Akihiro Katayama, Ryo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10049445
    Abstract: A user had to manually select a cross-sectional image indicating features of a finding and a cross-sectional image displayed in a report, from a three-dimensional medical image. Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes: a unit configured to acquire a target finding of a medical image; a unit configured to calculate an image feature quantity of a type associated in advance with the target finding, for each of a plurality of cross-sectional images of the medical image; and a unit configured to identify a cross-sectional image from the plurality of cross-sectional images based on the calculated image feature quantity. Operation of selecting a cross-sectional image by a doctor can be omitted, and the burden can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Nakano, Yoshio Iizuka, Kiyohide Satoh, Gakuto Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20180055461
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select as a display image a second tomographic image in the case where a second acquisition unit successfully acquires the second tomographic image or in the case where a correspondence relationship between a first tomographic image and the second tomographic image satisfies a predetermined condition, or select a notification image in a case other than the above-described cases, and a display unit configured to display the first tomographic image and the display image selected by the selection unit in parallel or in a superimposed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshio Iizuka, Gakuto Aoyama, Ryo Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170308661
    Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus which supports diagnosis based on information associated with a diagnosis name in advance is provided. In the diagnosis support apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires the diagnosis name set by a user. A providing unit provides negative information for the diagnosis name set by the user based on the information. With the above arrangement, the diagnosis support apparatus selects and presents information influencing the diagnosis name expected by the user, thereby efficiently presenting information required by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Masami Kawagishi, Kiyohide Satoh, Yoshio Iizuka, Takeshi Kubo, Masahiro Yakami, Koji Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20170256101
    Abstract: An image diagnosis assistance apparatus is configured to display a plurality of cross-sectional images on a display unit by sequentially switching the plurality of cross-sectional images; obtain user sight-line information including position information on a display screen of the display unit; and obtain a switching speed for switching the plurality of cross-sectional images. The image diagnosis assistance apparatus is configured to determine an observed area with respect to the plurality of cross-sectional images displayed on the display unit based on the obtained sight-line information and switching speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Yutaka Emoto, Hiroyoshi Isoda, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9734300
    Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus which supports diagnosis based on information associated with a diagnosis name in advance is provided. In the diagnosis support apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires the diagnosis name set by a user. A providing unit provides negative information for the diagnosis name set by the user based on the information. With the above arrangement, the diagnosis support apparatus selects and presents information influencing the diagnosis name expected by the user, thereby efficiently presenting information required by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masami Kawagishi, Kiyohide Satoh, Yoshio Iizuka, Takeshi Kubo, Masahiro Yakami, Koji Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20170091949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a region acquisition unit adapted to acquire a plurality of regions of interest on a medical image of an object to be examined, a designation unit adapted to designate regions of interest to be included in the same group out of the plurality of regions of interest, and a display control unit adapted to cause a display unit to display an individual input region used to input individual findings information for each of the plurality of regions of interest and a common input region used to input findings information common to the regions of interest included in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Thai Akasaka, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9519866
    Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus which provides information for supporting medical diagnosis obtains known medical information of a diagnosis target held in a database as “already-input” information, and has a selection unit that selects non-input information to be presented as medical information, other than the already-input information. A similar-case obtaining unit obtains, using the already-input information and the presentation non-input information, a case including the presentation non-input information from a case database, as a case similar to that of the diagnosis target, and a presentation unit presents the presentation non-input information and the similar case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masami Kawagishi, Yoshio Iizuka, Kiyohide Satoh
  • Publication number: 20160357925
    Abstract: A medical decision making support apparatus performs the inference processing of obtaining an inference result by performing inference processing associated with medical diagnosis based on a plurality of pieces of input medical information, and the calculation processing of calculating the degree of denial or affirmation of the inference result in association with each of a plurality of partial sets including each medical information extracted from the plurality of pieces of medical information as an element. The medical decision making support apparatus presents a user an inference result obtained by the inference processing and negative information indicating medical information included in a partial set, of the plurality of partial sets, for which the degree of denial is calculated by the calculation processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Masami Kawagishi, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9436915
    Abstract: A medical decision making support apparatus performs the inference processing of obtaining an inference result by performing inference processing associated with medical diagnosis based on a plurality of pieces of input medical information, and the calculation processing of calculating the degree of denial or affirmation of the inference result in association with each of a plurality of partial sets including each medical information extracted from the plurality of pieces of medical information as an element. The medical decision making support apparatus presents a user an inference result obtained by the inference processing and negative information indicating medical information included in a partial set, of the plurality of partial sets, for which the degree of denial is calculated by the calculation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masami Kawagishi, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9277891
    Abstract: An image diagnosis assistance apparatus calculates a first characteristic value based on an image feature of an image that is a diagnosis target, acquires a second characteristic value based on the findings information of the image input by a user via an operation unit, and performs diagnostic inference for a predetermined region of the image based on the first characteristic value, the second characteristic value, and the reliability of inference of the first characteristic value and the second characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9147098
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an obtaining unit configured to obtain a region from a medical image, and a generating unit configured to generate a display image by superimposing, on the basis of a position being in a schema image and corresponding to the region, an image of the region on a diagram representing a human body structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Iizuka, Yukio Sakagawa
  • Patent number: 9117009
    Abstract: In an apparatus configured to generate a report based on diagnosis target images, image characteristic conditions to identify a plurality of diagnosis target images specified by a user as a group are derived, search conditions of images similar to the diagnosis target images by using the obtained image characteristic conditions are determined, a database is searched for one or more similar images satisfying the search conditions; and image findings satisfying predetermined conditions is extracted from image findings attached to one or more obtained similar images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Iizuka, Kiyohide Satoh, Masami Kawagishi
  • Patent number: 9117008
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises an obtaining unit that obtains information associated with a human body to be examined, a forming unit that forms, based on information on a radiographing range of a radiographing apparatus with respect to the human body to be examined included in the obtained information, a graphic showing the radiographing range of the radiographing apparatus onto a body diagram of the human body to be examined; and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display the formed graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Iizuka, Hidehiko Morinaga, Akira Yoshino, Maiko Sato