ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,638, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program for performing determination regarding diagnosis of lesion on basis of synthesized two-dimensional image and priority target region" was invented by Yusuke Machii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device includes at least one processor. The processor detects a specific structural pattern indicating a lesion candidate structure for a breast in a series of a plurality of projection images obtained by performing tomosynthesis imaging on the breast or in a plur...