ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,254, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan) and FUJITA ACADEMY (Toyoake, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing apparatus method, and non-transitory, computer-readable medium" was invented by Yoshiharu Ohno (Toyoake, Japan), Kota Aoyagi (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Hitoshi Yamagata (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a morphological image and a functional image including at least a predetermined anatomical structure of a test subject; obtains reference mor...