The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142) from a subject (118) within a measurement zone (108). The magnetic resonance imaging system (100) comprises: a processor (130) for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) and a memory (136) storing machine executable instructions (150, 152, 154), pulse sequence commands (140) and a dictionary (144). The pulse sequence commands (140) are configured for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) to acquire the magnetic resonance data (142) of multiple steady state free precession (SSFP) states per repetition time. The pulse sequence commands (140) are further configured for controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system (100) to acquire the magnetic resonance data (142) of the multiple steady state free precession (SSFP) states according to a magnetic resonance fingerprinting protocol. The dictionary (144) comprises a plurality of tissue parameter sets. Each tissue parameter set is assigned with signal evolution data pre-calculated for multiple SSFP states.

A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of first medical information indicating wall motion parameters in a first local region and in a first global region, with respect to the heart of a first patient. The processing circuitry is configured to determine abnormality in the first local region on the basis of the plurality of pieces of first medical information.

An analysis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs registration between first ultrasound image data obtained at a first phase by an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and first medical image data obtained by a medical image diagnostic apparatus other than the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and performs registration between the first ultrasound image data and second ultrasound image data obtained at a second phase different from the first phase by the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, to generate second medical image data registered with the second ultrasound image data; and combines the second ultrasound image data and the second medical image data to generate a single image, thereby performing registration between ultrasound image data by the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and medical image data by the medical image diagnostic apparatus.

An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a time-sequential image obtained in order of a start image, a plurality of intermediate images, and an end image, an image selecting unit configured to select a plurality of combinations of images including the start image, at least one of the plurality of intermediate images, and the end image, and a conformable image determining unit configured to determine a conformable combination from among the plurality of combinations based on image quality of the images included in each of the plurality of combinations and a similarity between the images included in each of the plurality of combinations.

Provided is a control device including control circuitry configured to control a position and an attitude of a microscope by driving an arm that supports the microscope on the basis of a captured image of a surgical operating site photographed by the microscope during a surgical operation so that a position and attitude condition is satisfied. The position and attitude condition is a condition that prescribes a position and an attitude of the microscope with respect to the surgical operating site to obtain a desired captured image corresponding to the position and attitude condition.

A system for the detection of blood vessels includes an image sensor coupled to generate video data including a sequence of images of the blood vessels, and a heart rate monitor to measure a heart rate of a patient and to generate heart rate data. A controller is coupled to the image sensor to receive the video data, and coupled to the heart rate monitor to receive the heart rate data. The controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the controller to perform operations including isolate localized motion of the blood vessels in the video data using the heart rate data. The controller also computes a blood vessel mask (that includes differences between the video data and the localized motion of the blood vessels) and combined video data (that includes the video data and the blood vessel mask).

An imaging system and method for microbial growth detection, counting or identification. One colony may be contrasted in an image that is not optimal for another type of colony. The system and method provides contrast from all available material through space (spatial differences), time (differences appearing over time for a given capture condition) and color space transformation using image input information over time to assess whether microbial growth has occurred for a given sample.

Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are commonly used to assess patients with known or suspected pathologies of the lungs and liver. In particular, identification and quantification of possibly malignant regions identified in these high-resolution images is essential for accurate and timely diagnosis. However, careful quantitative assessment of lung and liver lesions is tedious and time consuming. This disclosure describes an automated end-to-end pipeline for accurate lesion detection and segmentation.

A first sequence of cardiac image frames are received by a first neural network of the neural network system. The first neural network outputs a first set of feature values. The first set of feature values includes a plurality of data subsets, each corresponding to a respective image frame and relating to spatial features of the respective image frame. The first set of feature values are received at a second neural network of the neural network system. The second neural network outputs a second set of feature values relating to temporal features of the spatial features. Based on the second set of feature values, a cardiac phase value relating to a cardiac phase associated with a first image frame is determined.

Methods for the prevention and treatment of ocular disorders, in particular glaucoma, through blocking the toxic effects of -amyloid (A) derivatives, and pharmaceutical compositions for effecting such prevention and treatment thereof.