US Patent Issued to Canon Kabashiki on Aug. 11 for "Medical image processing apparatus to estimate a shape of a region of interest in an image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,736, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon Kabashiki Kaisha (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus to estimate a shape of a region of interest in an image" was invented by Yukiteru Masuda (Kawasaki, Japan), Ryo Ishikawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Toru Tanaka (Funabashi, Japan) and Gakuto Aoyama (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an input image including a region of interest of a subject. The processing circuitry acquires information on an existence probability of the region of interest on the basis ...