Abstract:
Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus including a fluorescence-image generating portion that generates a plurality of fluorescence images by capturing fluorescence from an observation subject at a time interval; a position identifying portion that, in the individual fluorescence images generated by the fluorescence-image generating portion, identifies high-luminance positions having gradation values equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold; a storage portion that stores the high-luminance positions identified by the position identifying portion; a track-image generating portion that generates a track image that has gradation values at the plurality of high-luminance positions stored in the storage portion; and a display portion that displays the track image generated by the track-image generating portion.
Abstract:
Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus including a fluorescence-image generating portion that generates a fluorescence image; an identifying portion that identifies a position of a high-luminance region in the fluorescence image; a storage portion that stores the position of the high-luminance region; a detecting portion that detects an amount of change in a physical quantity, which can possibly act as a cause of changes in a property of the high-luminance region, starting from a time at which the position of the high-luminance region is identified by the identifying portion; a confidence-level calculating portion that calculates a confidence level of the property of the high-luminance region based on the detected amount of change; and a display-image generating portion that generates a display image in which the display mode at the position of the high-luminance region is set in accordance with the confidence level.
Abstract:
Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus including a fluorescence imaging portion that acquires a fluorescence image of biological tissue; a return-light imaging portion that acquires a return-light image of the biological tissue; a fluorescence-region identifying portion that identifies a fluorescence region in the fluorescence image by using a processing condition specified from among a plurality of processing conditions; a superimposed-image generating portion that generates a superimposed image by superimposing the identified fluorescence region on a corresponding position in the return-light image; a treatment-information acquisition portion that acquires treatment-details information indicating the specifics of treatment to be applied to the biological tissue; and an image switching portion that specifies the processing condition to be used by the fluorescence-region identifying portion in accordance with the treatment-details information acquired by the treatment-information acquisition portion.