ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,784, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Panjie Gou (Beijing), Qilin Xiao (Beijing), Hong Yang (Beijing), Chunqi Wang (Beijing) and Shun Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate, from a medical image, a plurality of feature target regions for specifying a target of image segmentation. The processing circuitry is configured to specify a target region indicating the region in whic...