US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 18 for "Medical image data processing apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,630, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image data processing apparatus and method" was invented by Ewan Hemingway (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Rebecca Hall (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Kamil Jacek (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image data processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data; segment a body part included in the medical image data into multiple regions; refine or constrain the segmentation based on at least one plane to obtain a segmentation that includes at least one boundary or othe...