US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,213, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Hong Yang (Beijing), Chunqi Wang (Beijing) and Zhen Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry detects, for each of target points corresponding to feature points, a reference point having a spatial correlation with the target point in a medical image. The processing circuitry generates candidate points corresponding to the target point for eac...