US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,131, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Ye Liu (Beijing) and Zhe Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image segmentation apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a localizer image of an organ, the localizer image being three-dimensional or being in a plurality of layers and two-dimensional. The processing circuitry is configured to temporarily localize, on a b...