US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,167, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Toru Tanaka (Chiba, Japan) and Ryo Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first medical image of a target object and a second medical image of the target object captured at different time phases from each other, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire first contour information about the target object in the first medical image and second contour information about the ...