摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of increasing the thermal hysteresis activity exhibited by a composition containing an antifreeze protein and water, wherein the method includes incorporating the antifreeze protein and any one or more substances selected from the following additive group A into the water. According to the present invention, the method of further increasing the thermal hysteresis activity inherently possessed by an antifreeze protein can be provided.Additive group A: an organic acid, an organic acid salt, an inorganic salt, an amino acid, an amino acid salt, an ammonium salt, a sugar, a sugar alcohol, urea, guanidine hydrochloride, spermidine, spermine, and N,N-dimethylformamide.
摘要:
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound toward a subject and a received signal obtained by receiving a reflected ultrasound from the subject, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a puncture needle position detection unit which obtains a puncture needle echo information indicating an angle and a position of the puncture needle from the plane-wave received signal, and an ultrasound image is displayed on the basis of the received signal, the transmission unit applies the driving signal to the ultrasound probe so that a plane-wave transmission ultrasound is output from the ultrasound probe, and the receiving unit receives a plane-wave received signal which is obtained in such a way that the plane-wave transmission ultrasound is transmitted from the ultrasound probe, reflected by a puncture needle to be the reflected ultrasound and received by the ultrasound probe.
摘要:
An image processing method for processing radiation image having signal according to the quantity of radiation passing through an object, comprising the steps of: weighting for giving a preset weight to a respective areas of a preset unit in a radiation image; and image processing for processing the radiation image according to weights of the areas given in the weighting step.
摘要:
The present invention is to provide a small-scale diagnosis system for conducting simple and efficient examination, including: an image creating apparatus for creating photographic image data of examination object; a CPU to conduct image processing for creating defined photographic image data from the photographic image data; an input section to input the examination object information to specify the photographed examination object; a CPU to correlate the defined image data created and examination object information corresponding to the defined photographic image data; a server to store the defined photographic image data having been correlated and the examination object information; a display section capable of displaying at least any one of the photographic image data, the defined photographic image data or the examination object information; and a control device having at least the CPU to carry out image processing, the CPU to carry out correlation processing and the display section.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus allows appropriate image processing with high versatility regardless of a site of a test subject and setting by an operator. There are provided a gradation transformation processing section 162 that performs gradation transformation processing on image data obtained by photographing a subject, based on a gradation transformation characteristic having a predetermined shift amount S and gradient G, a frequency enhancement processing section 163 that performs frequency enhancement processing on the image data having been subjected to the gradation transformation processing, based on a frequency enhancement characteristic being a characteristic of enhancement degrees for respective frequencies, and an image processing condition calculation section 130 that determines the gradation transformation characteristic and calculates the frequency enhancement characteristic, based on the gradation transformation characteristic. Herein, the image processing condition calculation section calculates a gradation transformation characteristic having a small gradient G so that frequency enhancement processing can be performed from a low frequency region, and calculates a frequency enhancement characteristic, based on the gradation transformation characteristic.
摘要:
This invention relates to a system, a method and a program for processing image information, by which image information of a subject is gradation-converted by using a gradation conversion curve. The system for processing image information, includes: an input section for inputting image information of a subject; a setting section for setting a gradient curve representing a change rate of an output value between neighbor values of each of the plurality of pixel values of the image information; a generating section for generating a gradation conversion curve by integrating the gradient curve; and an image processing section for applying a gradation conversion to the image information by using the gradation conversion curve.
摘要:
An image processing method of obtaining a suitable image for diagnosis from a radiation image having signals according to an irradiation amount of a radiation ray transmitting through a subject, the image processing method includes: a feature amount calculating step of calculating a feature amount; a feature amount evaluating step of evaluating the feature amount calculated with a feature amount evaluating function in the feature amount calculating step; a parameter determining step of determining a parameter for an image processing on a result evaluated in the feature amount evaluating step; and an image processing step of processing an image using the parameter determined in the parameter determining step.
摘要:
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs a transmission ultrasound wave toward a subject due to a driving signal and which outputs a received signal by receiving a reflection ultrasound wave from the subject, a transmitting unit which makes the ultrasound probe generate the transmission ultrasound wave by outputting each of a first transmission signal, a second transmission signal, a third transmission signal and a fourth transmission signal as the driving signal, and a signal component extraction unit which extracts a higher harmonic component and a difference frequency component by compounding a first received signal, a second received signal, a third received signal and a fourth received signal.
摘要:
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound waves toward a subject by a driving signal and which outputs received signals by receiving reflection ultrasound waves from the subject and a transmitting unit which generates the transmission ultrasound waves by the ultrasound probe by outputting the driving signal, and the transmitting unit generates the driving signal of square wave having a waveform in which a standard pulse signal where a pulse cycle is 2 T is combined with two first pulse signals of same polarity having a pulse width A (A
摘要:
An image processor executes an image processing under an appropriate condition. The image possessor comprises an important area detecting section (120) for detecting a bone portion or soft portion as an important area included in an X-ray image, a weight image creating section (130) for creating a weight image for imparting a predetermined weight to the pixels of the important area, histogram computing section (140) for multiplying the weight of the weight image by the pixel value of the X-ray image and computing a weighted histogram from the results of the multiplication, evaluating section (150) for evaluating the weighted histogram with a predetermined evaluation function and computing a shift value at which the evaluation result takes on a maximum value, image processing condition determining section (160) for so determining an image processing condition so as to obtain a predetermined processing result from the pixel value of the X-ray image corresponding to the maximum value of the evaluation function for obtaining a shift value, and image processing section (170) for executing an image processing under the image processing condition.