US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 17 for "Radiation image processing apparatus and operation method thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,649, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiation image processing apparatus and operation method thereof" was invented by Junya Morita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor provided in a radiation image processing apparatus acquires two radiation images obtained by imaging breasts of the same subject, calculates, based on the radiation images, a pixel mammary gland ratio, which is a ratio of a mammary gland for each pixel in each of the radiation images, calculates, based on the pixel mammary gland ratio, a region mammary gland ratio in a predetermined region of each of the radiation ...