Researcher Profile and Settings

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Name

• Name

  MEKADA Yoshito

Affiliations

Affiliation (Master)

• School of Engineering, Professor
• Department of Information Engineering, Professor
• Institute for Advanced Studies in Artificial Intelligence, Researcher
• Graduate School of Engineering, Professor
• Ｉnstitute of Social Sciences, Researcher

Education, Etc.

Degree

• Mar. 1993
• Mar. 1996

その他基本情報

Association Memberships

• Information Processing Society of Japan
• The Japan Society of Hepatology

Committee Memberships

• Asia Digital Image Processing Conference (ADIP 2024), Technical Program Committee
• 5th International Conference on Intelligent Medicine, Technical Committee
• IEEE ITS Society Nagoya Chapter, Technical Comittee
• 18th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Program Committee
• International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Image Processing (IMIP 2022), Technical Committee
• IEEE ITS Society Nagoya Chapter, Technical Committee
• IEEE ITS Society Nagoya Chapter Treasurer(2018-2019)

Research Activities

Research Areas, Etc.

Research Areas

• Medical Imaging, Pattern Recognition

Book, papers, etc

Published Papers

• A Method for Image Inpainting Considering Local Appearance Consistency
  Tianxiang Zhang, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, 66, 73, 2025, refereed, Joint Work
• Text Line Prediction and Character Segmentation from Line-by-Line Images using Character Bounding Box Annotation of Histrical Document Dataset
  Masashi Yamada, Yoshito Mekada, Junichi Hasegawa
  Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 65, 3, 1, 13, 2024, refereed, Joint Work
• Artificial intelligence (AI) models for the ultrasonographic diagnosis of liver tumors and comparison of diagnostic accuracies between AI and human experts
  Naoshi Nishida, Makoto Yamakawa, Tsuyoshi Shiina, Yoshito Mekada, Mutsumi Nishida, Naoya Sakamoto, Takashi Nishimura, Hiroko Iijima, Toshiko Hirai, Ken Takahashi, Masaya Sato, Ryosuke Tateishi, Masahi
  Journal of Gastroenterology, Online, 1, 13, 2022, refereed, Joint Work
• Detection and Tracking of Liver Tumors for Ultrasound Diagnostic Support Using Deep Learning
  Shoya Yamagishi, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada, Naoshi Nishida, and Masatoshi Kudo
  Journal of Image and Graphics, 10, 1, 50, 55, 2022, refereed, Joint Work
• Matching of sprint performance videos focusing on the motion periodicity and the speed linearity
  Yoshiteru Yamamoto, Keisuke Doman, Yoshiya Hotta, Yoshito Mekada
  IEEJ Trans. on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16, 11, 1479, 1486, 2021, refereed, Joint Work
• Lesion Image Generation Using Conditional GAN for Metastatic Liver Cancer Detection
  Yusuke Ikeda, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada, and Shigeru Nawano
  Journal of Image and Graphics, 9, 1, 27, 30, 2021, refereed, Joint Work
• Pitch and Playing Style Estimation Using Spectral Characteris-tics and Performance Constraints for Slapping on Bass Guitar
  Harumi Murata, Kiyotaka Yamamoto, Akio Ogiwara, Yoshito Mekada
  IEICE Trans. JD, J101-D, 11, 1499, 1503, 2018, refereed, Joint Work
• Human Wearable Attribute Recognition using Probability-Map-based Decomposition of Thermal Infrared Images
  Brahmastro KRESNARAMAN, Yasutomo KAWANISHI, Daisuke DEGUCHI, Tomokazu TAKAHASHI,Yoshito MEKADA, Ichiro IDE, and Hiroshi MURASE
  IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol.E100-A, 3, 854, 864, 2017, refereed, Joint Work
• Reconstructing Face Image from the Thermal Infrared Spectrum to the Visible Spetrum
  Brahmastro Kresnaraman, Daisuke Deguchi, Tomokazu Takahashi, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase
  Sensors, special issue on "Infrared and THz Sensing and Imaging", 1, 16, 2016, refereed, Joint Work
• Automatic detection of informative frames from wireless capsule endoscopy images
  M.K. Bashar, T. Kitasakaad, Y. Suenaga, Y. Mekada, K. Mori
  Medical Image Analysis, 449, 470, 2010, refereed, Joint Work
• Recognition of camera-captured low-quality characters using motion blur information
  Hiroyuki Ishida, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase
  Pattern Recognition, Vol.41, No.7, 2253, 2262, 2008, refereed, Joint Work
• Detection of Raindrops on a Windowshield from an In-vehicle Video Camera
  Hiroyuki Kurihata, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase, Yukimasa Tamatsu and Takayuki Miyahara
  International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), 1583, 1591, 2007, refereed, Joint Work
• Generation of Training Data by Degradation Models for Traffic Sign Symbol Recognition
  Hiroyuki Ishida, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase
  IEICE Trans., Vol.J90-E, 1134, 1141, 2007, refereed, Joint Work
• Evaluation of a prostate biopsy strategy for cancer detection using a computer simulation system with virtual needle biopsy for 3D prostate models
  Masanori Noguchi, Daisuke Deguchi, Junichiro Toriwaki, Kensaku Mori, Yoshito Mekada and Kei Matsuoka
  International Journal of Urology, 1296, 1303, 2006, refereed, Joint Work
• Influences of Visual and Conversation Loads upon a Functional Visual Field While Driving
  Miyoshi AYAMA, Yoshito MEKADA and Masao KASUGA
  Kansei Engineering International, 33, 38, 2001, refereed, Joint Work
• Friendly supporting system for improvement of both disabled and assisting people's comfortable feeling using sound and image processing
  Seigou Yasuda, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideo Yamamoto, Kazuo Kamata, and Masao Kasuga
  Kansei Engineering International, 11, 18, 2001, refereed, Joint Work
• Three Dimensional Concentration Index as a Feature of Line Pattern Distribution in Three Dimensional Space
  Yasushi HIRANO, Yoshito MEKADA, Jun-ichi HASEGAWA, Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI
  FORMA, 233, 245, 1999, refereed, Joint Work
• Communication System for People with Physical Disability Using Voice Recognizer
  Seigou YASUDA, Akira OKAMOTO, Hiroshi HASEGAWA, Yoshito MEKADA, Masao KASUGA, Kazuo KAMATA
  Trans. on IEICE E, 1097, 1104, 1998, refereed, Joint Work

Books etc

• Lesion image synthesis using DCGANs for metastatic liver cancer detection
  Keisuke Doman, Takaaki Konishi, Yoshito Mekada
  Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Applications, Springer, 2020

Conference Activities & Talks

• Domain-adaptive object detection by using refined pseudo-labels via segmentation
  Juki Tanimoto, Haruya Kyutoku, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  Proc. of the 31st Int. Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, 2025, Joint Work, refereed
• Domain-adaptive object detection by using refined pseudo-labels via segmentation
  Juki Tanimoto, Haruya Kyutoku, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  The 31st Int. Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, 2024, Joint Work
• Domain adaptation from visible-light to FIR with reliable pseudo labels
  Juki Tanimoto, Haruya Kyutoku, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  Proc. of the 18th Int. Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, 2023, Joint Work, refereed
• Development of a computer-aided diagnosis system for detection and tracking of liver tumors from ultrasonography
  Yoshito Mekada
  The 14th Int. Conf. on Digital Image Processing, 2022, Single Work, refereed
• Improvement of attention modules for image captioning using pixel-wise semantic information
  Zhihao Chen, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  Proc. SPIE 12342, Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2022), 2022, Joint Work, refereed
• Liver tumor detection and classification from abdominal ultrasound images with centernet using contrastive learning
  Eigo Hara, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo
  Proc. of Int. Workshop on Advanced Image Technology, 2023, Joint Work, refereed
• Detection and tracking of liver tumors for ultrasound diagnostic support using deep learning
  Shoya Yamagishi, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada, Naoshi Nishida, Masatoshi Kudo
  Int. Conf. on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, Joint Work
• Lesion image generation using conditional GAN for metastatic liver cancer detection
  Yusuke Ikeda, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada, Shigeru Nawano
  2nd International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Image Processing (IMIP 2020), 2020, Joint Work, refereed, Online
• Depth estimation for instrument segmentation from a single laparoscopic video toward laparoscopic surgery support
  Takuya Suzuki, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Image Processing, 2019, Joint Work, Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas, Bali, Indonesia
• Application of data augmentation for accurate attractiveness estimation for food photography
  Tatsumi Hattori, Keisuke Doman, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada
  Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities, 2019, Joint Work, refereed, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Japanese Character Segmentation for Historical Handwritten Official Documents Using Fully Convolutional Networks
  Kei Watanabe, Shinji Takahashi, Yuki Kamaya, Masashi Yamada, Yoshito Mekada, Junichi Hasegawa, Shinya Miyazaki
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2019, 2019, Joint Work, The International Convention Centre Sydney
• A study on a data augmentation framework for accurate food attractiveness estimation
  Tatsumi Hattori, Keisuke Doman, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada
  IEICE SIG Symposium on Attractiveness Computing 2019, 2019, Joint Work, Nagoya University
• Sprint form analysis toward athletic performance improvement
  Yoshiteru Yamamoto, Keisuke Doman, Yoshiya Hotta, Yoshito Mekada
  IEICE SIG Symposium on Attractiveness Computing 2019, 2019, Joint Work, Nagoya University
• Joint Work
• Raindrop removal in a vehicle camera video considering the temporal consistency for driving support
  Hiroki Inoue, Keisuke Doman, Jun Adachi, Yoshito Mekada
  Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2020, Joint Work, refereed, Grand Hotel Excelsior, Valletta, Malta
• Lesion image generation using conditional GAN for metastatic liver cancer detection
  Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Medicine and Image Processing, 2020, Joint Work, refereed, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China
• Character recognition of modern Japanese official documents using CNN for imbalanced learning data
  Zongjhe Yang, Keisuke Doman, Masashi Yamad, Yoshito Mekada
  Int. Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), 2019, Joint Work
• Running video matching algorithm focusing on the periodicity and linearity of running motion
  Yoshiteru Yamamot, Keisuke Doma, Yoshiya Hott, Yoshito Mekada
  6th Int. Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support, 2018, Joint Work, refereed, Seville, Spain
• Learning sample generation for detecting liver cancer using 3D-CNN
  Yoshito Mekada, Keisuke Doman
  40th Int. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conf., 2018, Joint Work, refereed, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
• A study on the factors affecting the attractiveness of food photography
  Tatsumi Hattori, Keisuke Doman, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada
  10th Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities, 2018, Joint Work, refereed, Sweden
• Lesion image synthesis using DCGANs for metastatic liver cancer detectio
  Takaaki Konishi, Keisuke Doman, Shigeru Nawano, Yoshito Mekada
  International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision 2018, 2018, Joint Work, refereed, Hakodate
• A study on measuring instantaneous swimming speed using a hand-held camera
  Takumi Yamaguchi, Keisuke Doman, Yoshito Mekada
  2017 Int. Workshop on Advanced Image Technology, 2017, Joint Work
• 2017, Joint Work
• 2017, Joint Work
• 2016, Joint Work
• 2016, Joint Work
• 2014, Joint Work, refereed
• 2014, Joint Work
• 2014, Joint Work
• 2014, Joint Work
• 2013, Joint Work
• 2012, Joint Work, refereed
• 2012, Joint Work
• 2012, Joint Work
• 2012, Joint Work
• 2012, Joint Work
• 2011, Joint Work
• 2011, Joint Work
• 2010, Joint Work
• 2009, Joint Work
• 2009, Joint Work
• 2009, Joint Work
• 2008, Joint Work
• 2008, Joint Work
• 2008, Joint Work
• Recognition of camera-captured characters in blurred image using motion-blur parameters
  Hiroyuki Ishida, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase
  8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2007, Joint Work
• Measurement of Visibility Conditions toward Smart Driver Assistance for Traffic Signals
  Kimura Fumika, Tomokazu Takahashi, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase, Takayuki Miyahara, Yukimasa Tamatsu
  2007 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2007, Joint Work
• Identification of degraded traffic sign symbols by a generative learning method
  Hiroyuki Ishida, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada, and Hiroshi Murase
  18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), 2006, Joint Work
• Planning of Multiple Camera Arrangement for Object Recognition in Parametric Eigenspace
  Tomokazu Takahashi, Osanori Matsugano, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase
  18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), 2006, Joint Work
• Preliminary report of CAD system competition for liver cancer extraction from 3D CT images and fusion of the CADs
  A. Shimizu, T. Kawamura, S. Nawano, Y. Mekada, Y. Hayashi, D. Deguchi
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006, Joint Work
• Spatiotemporal Density Feature Analysis to Detect Liver Cancer from Abdominal CT Angiography
  Yoshito Mekada, Yuki Wakida, Yuichiro Hayashi, Ichiro Ide and Hiroshi Murase
  Computer Vision - ACCV 2006, 2006, Joint Work
• Detection of liver cancer regions from dynamic CT images
  Y. Hayashi, D. Deguchi, T. Kitasaka, K. Mori, Y. Suenaga, , Y. Mekada, J. Toriwaki
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006, Joint Work
• Automated Nomenclature of Bronchial Branches Extracted from CT Images and Its Application to Biopsy Path Planning in Virtual Bronchoscopy
  Kensaku Mori, Shinya Ema, Takayuki Kitasaka, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase, Yasuhito Suenaga, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Masaki Mori and Hiroshi Natori
  Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2005), 2005, Joint Work
• Recognition of Low-Resolution Characters by a Generative Learning Method
  Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinsuke Yanadume, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Yoshito Mekada and Hiroshi Murase
  First International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005, Joint Work
• Rainy Weather Recognition from In-Vehicle Camera Images for Driver Assistance
  Hiroyuki Kurihata, Tomokazu Takahashi, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase, Yukimasa Tamatsu, and Takayuki Miyahara
  IEEE 2005 Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, 2005, Joint Work
• Pulmonary artery and vein classification method using spatial arrangement features from X-ray CT images
  S. Nakamura, Y. Mekada, I. Ide, H. Murase, J. Hasegawa, J. Toriwaki, H. Otsuji
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2005, 2005, Joint Work
• A method for automated segmentation of the stomach and its application for navigated diagnosis
  R. Kono, Y. Mekada, K. Mori, I. Ide, H. Murase, J.-I. Hasegawa, S. Nawano
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2005, 2005, Joint Work
• A method for automated nomenclature of bronchial branches extracted from CT images
  K. Mori, S. Ema, T. Kitasaka, Y. Mekada, I. Ide, H. Murase, Y. Suenaga, H. Takabatake, M. Mori, H. Natori
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2005, 2005, Joint Work
• Recognition of very low-resolution characters from motion images captured by a portable digital camera
  Shinsuke Yanadume, Yoshito Mekada, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase
  2004 Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia, 2004, Joint Work
• Finding Corresponding Lung Nodules in Sequential Chest CT Images for Follow-up Surveillance
  Yoshito Mekada, Jun-ichi Hasegawa, Junichiro Toriwaki, Takashi Kusanagi, Hiroshi Murase
  Tenth international conference on Virtual System and Multimedia, 2004, Joint Work
• High Quality Isosurface Generation from Volumetric Data and Its Application to Visualization of Medical CT Data
  Tomokazu Takahashi, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase, Tatsuhiro Yonekura
  17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), 2004, Joint Work
• Automated detection of liver cancer regions from multi-phase CT images using density transition features
  S. Watanabe, F. Shigeyama, J. Hasegawa, J. Toriwaki, Y. Mekada
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2004, 2004, Joint Work
• An Improved method for automated anatomical labeling of bronchial branches extracted from 3-D CT images
  Sinya Ema, Kensaku Mori, Takayuki, Kitasaka, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase, Jun-ichi Hasegawa, Junichiro Toriwaki, Masaki Mori, Hirotsugu Takabatake, and Hiroshi Natori
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2004, 2004, Joint Work
• High quality isosurface construction from volumetric data sampled with a face-centered cubic lattice
  Tomokazu Takahashi, Yoshito Mekada, Hiroshi Murase, and Tatsuhiro Yonekura
  ACCV 2004, 2004, Joint Work
• 2004, Joint Work
• 2003, Joint Work
• Detection of small nodules from 3D chest X-ray CT images based on shape features
  Yoshito Mekada, Takeshi Kusanagi, Yousuke Hayase, Kensaku Mori, Junichiro Toriwaki, Junichi Hasegawa, Masaki Mori and Hiroshi Natori
  Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2003, 2003, Joint Work
• Real-time Medical Diagnosis on a Multiple FPGA-based System
  Takashi Yokota, Masamichi Nagafuchi, Yoshito Mekada, Tsutomu Yoshinaga, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takanobu Baba
  12th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2002, Joint Work
• Anchor Point Thinning Using a Skeleton Based on the Euclidean Distance Transformation
  Yoshito Mekada, Jun-ichiro Toriwaki
  16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002, Joint Work
• Quantification of the spatial distribution of line segments with the applications to CAD of chest X-ray CT images
  Yasushi Hirano, Yoshito Mekada, Jun-ichi Hasegawa, and Junichiro Toriwaki
  11th Workshop Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, 2002, Joint Work
• Effects of Visual and Conversation Tasks upon a Functional Visual Field while Driving
  Miyoshi AYAMA, Yoshito MEKADA, Hiroshi HASEGAWA, Masao KASUGA
  IEEE Conference Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2000, Joint Work
• Automated extraction of cancer lesions from double contrast x-ray images of stomach
  Yoshito MEKADA, Jun-ichi HASEGAWA, Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI, Sigeru NAWANO, Kunihisa MIYAGAWA
  1st International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 1998, Joint Work
• Three Dimensional Concentration Index - A Local Feature for Analyzing Three Dimensional Digital Line Patterns and Its Application to Chest X-Ray CT Images
  Yasushi HIRANO, Yoshito MEKADA, Jun-ichi HASEGAWA, Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI, Hironobu OHMATSU, Kenji EGUCHI
  Int'l Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR1998), 1998, Joint Work
• Three Dimensional Concentration Index - A New Feature To Evaluate Vessels Convergence In Nodules In Lung of 3D X-ray CT Images
  Yoshito MEKADA, Yasushi HIRANO, Jun-ichi HASEGAWA, Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI, Hironobu OHMATSU, Kenji EGUCHI
  Computer Assisted Radiology(CAR'96), 1996, Joint Work

Misc

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Other Research Activities

Awards & Honors

• 2019, Zongjhe Yang, Keisuke Doman, Masashi Yamada, Yoshito Mekada, Int. Workshop on Advanced Image Technology, Best Paper Award, Character recognition of modern Japanese official documents using CNN for imbalanced learning data, Zongjhe Yang, Keisuke Doman, Masashi Yamada, Yoshito Mekada
• 2005
• 2004
• 2002
• 1997

Research Grants & Projects

• 2016
• 2011
• 2010
• 2007
• 2004
• 2000
• 1998