US Patent Issued to NEC on April 7 for "Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,957, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic examination support apparatus, endoscopic examination support method, and recording medium" was invented by Naoto Maeda (Tokyo), Takuma Igarashi (Tokyo), Masahiro Saikou (Tokyo), Kimiyasu Takoh (Tokyo) and Yuko Maekawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, the video acquisition means acquires an endoscopic video captured by an endoscope. The lesion detection means detects a lesion candidate from the endoscopic video. The heat map generation means generates a heat map which represents a lesion possibility of the lesi...