ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,193, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program for accurate diagnosis of target organ" was invented by Mizuki Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor extracts a region of a target organ from a medical image, extracts a region of at least one peripheral organ that is present in a periphery of the target organ from the medical image, derives a positional relationship between the target organ and the peripheral organ, and determines whether or not the target organ is compressed by the peripheral organ based on the positional...