US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for correcting a contour of an object in a medical image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,125, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for correcting a contour of an object in a medical image" was invented by Kodai Hirayama (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yasuhiko Abe (Otawara, Japan) and Koji Ando (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, there is provided a medical image processing apparatus and method for estimating a contour of a desired structure, such as a cardiac muscle, based on a medical image, such as an ultrasound image, and cross section information of the desired structure, receiving a desired correction mode from among mu...