US Patent Issued to KEIO UNIVERSITY on June 9 for "Image diagnossis assistance device, image diagnossis assistance method, and image diagnossis assistance program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,338, issued on June 9, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Image diagnossis assistance device, image diagnossis assistance method, and image diagnossis assistance program" was invented by Hikaru Sasaki (Tokyo), Tokunori Kanazawa (Tokyo), Masato Nakaya (Tokyo), Hirokazu Fujiwara (Tokyo), Masahiro Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Tatsuaki Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic imaging assistance device 1 comprises: a first acquisition unit 10 for acquiring an image of a head through MRI; an image processing unit 11 for extracting a region containing information on a lesion site and the periphery of the lesion site from ...