US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Image processing method, program, and image processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,164, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY (Kumamoto, Japan).

"Image processing method, program, and image processing device" was invented by Yasuko Tatewaki (Sendai, Japan), Tetsuya Yoneda (Kumamoto, Japan) and Akira Arai (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes: a step of creating, by a blood vessel mask creation unit, a blood vessel mask image by removing a punctate low signal intensity, removing a linear low signal intensity, extracting the linear low signal intensity, removing a punctate high signal int...