US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 31 for "Information processing method, medical image diagnostic apparatus, and information processing system including deep learning for optimal cardiac phase selection" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,971, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Information processing method, medical image diagnostic apparatus, and information processing system including deep learning for optimal cardiac phase selection" was invented by Chih-Chieh Liu (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Qiulin Tang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Zhou Yu (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided with processing circuitry that receives a phase image acquired at a corresponding cardiac phase, determines, from the received phase image, a mask image...