US Patent Issued to NIKON on July 28 for "Diagnosis support device, learning device, diagnosis support method, learning method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,276, issued on July 28, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Diagnosis support device, learning device, diagnosis support method, learning method, and program" was invented by Toshihide Kurihara (Tokyo), Yusaku Katada (Tokyo), Kazuo Tsubota (Tokyo) and Kanato Masayoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for supporting diagnosis has: a reception unit that is configured to receive a fundus image of a subject eye; an identification unit provided with a trained model that is configured to recognize, in the fundus image of the subject eye, an area of abnormality in blood circulation, wherein the model has been trained based u...