Abstract:
An abnormal pattern detecting apparatus comprises a device for finding prospective abnormal patterns in a radiation image of an object from an image signal representing the radiation image, and a device for finding anatomical information about the object from the image signal. From the image signal components of the image signal, which represent the image information at positions in the vicinity of each prospective abnormal pattern, a characteristic measure calculating device calculates a plurality of characteristic measures for each prospective abnormal pattern. An abnormal pattern finding device utilizes the characteristic measures and the anatomical information in order to find a true abnormal pattern from the prospective abnormal patterns.
Abstract:
An apparatus for determining the probability that the shadow of a tumor designated on a radiation image of an object is the shadow of a malignant tumor on the basis of an image signal representing the radiation image includes a spectrum calculating means, a characteristic value calculating means, and a judging means. The spectrum calculating means obtains the spectrum distribution of the image signal D(r,.theta.) whose coordinates are expressed in polar form with the origin taken as the approximate center of the shadow. From the spectrum distribution the characteristic value calculating means obtains a characteristic value, which the judging means uses to determine the probability that the shadow of a tumor is the shadow of a malignant tumor.
Abstract:
Calculations are made to find the differences, .DELTA.ij=fij-f0, between the value of an image signal component f0 representing as picture element P0 in a radiation image and the values of image signal components fij representing the picture elements Pij, which are located on each of a plurality of lines Li, where i=1, 2, . . . , n, extending from the picture element P0 to the peripheral parts of the radiation image, and which are spaced a plurality of distances rij, where j=1, 2, . . . , m, from the picture element P0. A representative value, which is representative of the differences .DELTA.ij, is then found for each of the lines Li. A mean-level value of two representative values for each set of two lines, which extend from the picture element P0 in approximately opposite directions, is then calculated. From the mean-level values, which have been calculated for a plurality of the sets of lines, a judgment is made as to whether the picture element P0 falls or does not fall within the region corresponding to a circular pattern in the radiation image.
Abstract:
There is provided a medical information processing system including a diagnosis information storing section that stores thereon frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, where the frequency information indicates a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed, a diagnosis receiving section that receives a diagnosis during a diagnosis process, and a disease information presenting section that presents, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.
Abstract:
A data communication system comprising a terminal unit for generating light signals responsive to status of switches and a control unit for receiving the signals spatially propagated and controlling operation of a predetermined load, wherein switches 11 and 12 are interposed between plus and minus lines 51 and 52 as power lines for supplying electric power from the control unit to the terminal unit, and connected in series with respective resistors R1 and R2 having different values of resistance, and the minus line is grounded in the control unit 30 through resistor R0. Potential of the minus line changes in response to switches 11 and 12, and electronic signals indicative of the status of the switches are transmitted to the control unit separately from the light signals. Thus, even if the spatial propagation of the light signals is interrupted, the control over the operation of the load is secured.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition comprising cyanate resin, a compound containing at least one or more than one of a phenolic hydroxyl radical and an epoxy resin, wherein said resin has excellent adhesive and heat resistant properties while at the same time possessing a low hardening contraction rate and contributing to higher dimensional stability, and method of making the same.
Abstract:
An abnormal pattern detecting apparatus comprises an image operating device which generates at least an original image signal representing an original image and a soft tissue image signal representing a soft tissue image from several image signals representing radiation images of an object, which radiation images have been recorded by exposing the object to at least two kinds of radiation having different energy distributions. A region discriminating device discriminates anatomical regions in the radiation image from at least one of the image signals. An abnormal pattern finding device finds an abnormal pattern, which appears in the original image or the soft tissue image, by processing the original image signal or the soft tissue image signal with an abnormal pattern finding filter in accordance with the anatomical regions.
Abstract:
In a radiation image read-out apparatus, a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored, is exposed to stimulating rays, which cause the stimulable phosphor sheet to emit light in proportion to the amount of energy stored thereon during its exposure to radiation. The emitted light is detected and photoelectrically converted by a photodetector, and an image signal representing the radiation image is thereby generated by the photodetector. Information corresponding to the amount of energy stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet during its exposure to radiation is inputted from a stored energy amount input device. A light amount adjuster is located in an optical path of the emitted light impinging upon the photodetector in order to adjust the amount of the emitted light impinging upon the photodetector in accordance with the amount of energy stored on the stimulable phosphor sheet, which energy amount is represented by the information having been inputted with the stored energy amount input device.
Abstract:
A method for adjusting conditions comprises the steps of, when a radiation image of a specific object is recorded and read out, investigating whether recording and read-out operations were or were not carried out in the past for the same object as the specific object. When recording and read-out operations were carried out in the past for the same object as the specific object, image recording conditions for the specific object are adjusted such that they coincide with those under which the recording operation was carried out for the same object as the specific object. Also, instead of read-out conditions for a final readout, which is to be carried out for the specific object, being adjusted on the basis of a preliminary read-out image signal representing the radiation image of the specific object, the read-out conditions for the final readout to be carried out for the specific object are adjusted such that they coincide with those under which the final readout was carried out from the radiation image of the same object as the specific object. Recording and read-out operations for the specific object are carried out under the conditions, which have thus been adjusted.
Abstract:
The present invention is a method for producing a 2-oxazoline analogue or a 1,3-oxazine analogue represented by the following general formula (3) by reacting a 1,2-aminoalcohol compound or a 1,2-aminothiol compound with an α,α-dihaloamine compound.(In the formula, n represents 0 or 1, and R represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. R1, R2 and R3 each represents an atom or a group shown in Group 1 to Group 3, and R0 represents an atom or a group shown in Group 2 or Group 3. Two or more of R1, R2 and R3 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.Group 1: a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a formyl group, a carboxyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinoyl group or a sulfenyl group;Group 2: an alkyl group, which may have an arbitrary substituent, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; andGroup 3: an alkyl-substituted, aryl-substituted or aralkyl-substituted oxy group, a carbonyl group, an oxycarbonyl group, a carbonyloxy group, a thio group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinoyl group or a sulfenyl group)