ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,772, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical image processing apparatus and method" was invented by Takanori Tominaga (Hadano Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Sakaguchi (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus includes a catheter including a sensor and insertable into a blood vessel, a display, and a processor configured to: control the catheter to acquire tomographic images of the vessel, input the images into a model and acquire information indicating a condition of a part of the blood vessel, generate a histogram of a plaque area ratio in the vessel, acquire a ...