US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 31 for "Region identification device, region identification method, and region identification program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,031, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Region identification device, region identification method, and region identification program" was invented by Hirotaka Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition unit acquires a phase contrast image consisting of a plurality of phases, in which a pixel value of each pixel represents a velocity of fluid, the phase contrast image being acquired by imaging a subject including a structure inside which fluid flows by a phase contrast magnetic resonance method. An identification unit identifies a region of the structure in the phase contrast image on th...