US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on Feb. 10 for "Medical data processing apparatus for determining a compression ratio for a region of interest in a medical image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,733, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical data processing apparatus for determining a compression ratio for a region of interest in a medical image" was invented by Shuhei Bannae (Utsunomiya, Japan), Hikaru Futami (Nasushiobara, Japan), Hisaaki Oosako (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Takahiko Nishioka (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a medical data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines at least one region of interest for performing processing on a medical image and a degree of importance of the regi...