ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,873, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Magnus Fredrik Wahrenberg (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to receive radiation image data for each of a plurality of different channels, wherein the radiation image data for all of the plurality of channels represents a same anatomical region of a same subject; and, for each of a plurality of positions represented in the radiation image data: estimate, based on data values for the position in each of the...