ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,474, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Medical image 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 includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, from a medical image, anatomical landmarks that represent feature points of anatomical tissue that is included in the medical image, identifies a landmark group to which the extracted anatomical landmarks belong from among landmark groups in each of which a plurality of anatomical landmarks that are groped based on the anatomical t...