US Patent Issued to NEC on April 14 for "Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,284, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" was invented by Kenichi Kamijo (Tokyo), Yuji Iwadate (Tokyo) and Takuma Igarashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, the image acquisition means acquires an endoscopic image taken by an endoscope. The first lesion detection means detects a lesion candidate from the endoscopic image, using a machine learning model that learned a relationship between the lesion candidate and a normal state of a large intestine. The second l...