System and methods for monitoring the growth of an aquatic plant culture and detecting real-time characteristics associated with the aquatic plant culture aquatic plants. The systems and methods may include a control unit configured to perform an analysis of at least one image of an aquatic plant culture. The analysis may include processing at least one collected image to determine at least one physical characteristic or state of an aquatic plant culture. Systems and methods for distributing aquatic plant cultures are also provided. The distribution systems and methods may track and control the distribution of an aquatic plant culture based on information received from various sources. Systems and methods for growing and harvesting aquatic plants in a controlled and compact environment are also provided. The systems may include a bioreactor having a plurality of vertically stacked modules designed to contain the aquatic plants and a liquid growth medium.

Provided is a medical display control device including a display control unit that causes a first captured medical image and a second captured medical image to be simultaneously displayed, the first captured medical image having been captured in an imaging device in a first imaging mode where imaging is performed with special light, the second captured medical image having been captured in the imaging device in a second imaging mode different from the first imaging mode before the first captured medical image.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe, a reference image holding unit that holds an ultrasound image acquired by fixing the position of the ultrasound probe as a reference image, a movement vector calculation unit that calculates a movement vector between two ultrasound images, a movement vector integration unit that integrates the movement vectors from the time when the reference image is held until the current time, a deformed image generation unit that generates a deformed image in which the reference image is moved and changed on the basis of an integration result, a tomographic plane determination unit that compares the deformed image with the current ultrasound image, to determine whether or not tomographic planes of the reference image and the current ultrasound image are the same as each other, and a determination result notification unit that notifies a user of a determination result.

Systems and methods for obtaining diagnostic data of a target are disclosed. The systems include an imaging device and a drape. The imaging device includes at least one excitation light source for fluorescent imaging, and an optical sensor configured to detect signals responsive to illumination of the target with the excitation light. The drape is configured to reduce ambient light surrounding the target during imaging.

Embodiments of the disclosure utilize technology to provide dimensional data for individual body parts. Individual body part dimensions can be compared to one another to provide a factor of Waist to Hip Ratio. The difference in waist and hip dimensions is used to provide a waist to hip ratio which is compared with future scans and used to provide a proportionality of an average workout recommendation to individuals to tone up or build muscle.

An ultrasound image evaluation apparatus includes: an image obtaining section that obtains a first ultrasound image generated based on ultrasounds, and a second ultrasound image generated before the first ultrasound image; an evaluation section that evaluates a distribution of motions at a part in the first ultrasound image, and a corresponding part of tissue in the second ultrasound image; and an output control section that performs control of outputting an evaluation result of the evaluation section.

A display device includes a biometric information value acquiring portion, a comparing portion, and a subject state determining portion. The biometric information value acquiring portion subsequently acquires a subject's biometric information value. The comparing portion compares a first biometric information value that is subsequently acquired by the biometric information value acquiring portion with a second biometric information value which is different from the first biometric information value that is subsequently acquired by the biometric information value acquiring portion. The subject state determining portion determines that the user could get a certain improvement owing to the treatment on the user on the basis of a comparison result by the comparing portion.

The present invention relates to localization of a vascular treatment and quantification of a part of a vascular structure. It is described to provide (12) at least one first image comprising a representation of a region of interest of a vascular structure. At least one second image comprising a representation of the region of interest of the vascular structure is provided (14). Between an acquisition of the at least one first image and an acquisition of the at least one second image, a vascular treatment might have been applied to the region of interest of the vascular structure, wherein the representation of the region of interest of the vascular structure relates to spatial extension information of the vascular structure at least in one image plane. At least one reference image from an image set formed from the at least one first image and the at least one second image is selected (16). At least one sample image from the image set formed from the at least one first image and the at least one second image is selected (18), wherein the at least one sample image is different to the at least one reference image. At least one image from the at least one sample image is registered (20) with the at least one reference image to provide at least one registered image. It is determined (22) if there exists at least one region of spatial discrepancy between the representation of the region of interest in the at least one reference image and the representation of the region of interest in the at least one registered image. Data is output (24) representative of the at least one region of spatial discrepancy.

According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a method to support clinical decision by characterizing images acquired in sequence through a video medical device. The method comprises defining at least one image quantitative criterion, storing sequential images in a buffer, for each image (10) in the buffer, automatically determining, using a first algorithm, at least one output based on said image quantitative criterion and attaching said output to a timeline (11).

Disclosed herein are a computer assistance method for the reduction of a fracture and a computing system for assisting the reduction of a fracture. The computer assistance method includes: generating a first model of a first bone, which is a treatment target, based on a pre-operative medical image; generating a second model, assumed to be obtained after the restoration of the first bone, based on the pre-operative medical image; acquiring a third model in which the spatial information of the first model has been updated by incorporating, into the spatial information, the movement of the first bone occurring during treatment after the installation of markers onto the first bone; and generating overlay visual information based on the second and third models registered onto the same space.