US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Dec. 16 for "Medical image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,029, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Saki Hashimoto (Nasushiobara, Japan), Kazuo Imagawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yoshiteru Kobayashi (Sakura, Japan), Yuichiro Watanabe (Yaita, Japan) and Takuya Aida (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires correspondence information, based on 3D medical image data of an object, that corresponds a blood vessel to in...