US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 2 for "Medical image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,312, issued on June 2, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus" was invented by Keita Nakagomi (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The medical image processing apparatus disclosed herein includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a medical image for setting identification information for identifying a plurality of regions in the medical image, determine a plurality of seed points in the medical image, select one of the plurality of seed points on a shortest path from a first node, the shortest path being a path in which a sum of energies between pixels in...