ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,343, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Medical information processing apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Ishii (Nasushiobara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus of one embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, from a medical image, anatomical landmarks that represent feature points of anatomical tissue included in the medical image, and calculates, based on a measurement pattern that defines a measurement method for an index that represents a relative positional relationship between a plurality of anatomical lan...