US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 28 for "Medical image processing apparatus having respiratory state estimating function, medical image processing method thereof, and storage medium used in the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,192, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus having respiratory state estimating function, medical image processing method thereof, and storage medium used in the same" was invented by Yasuko Fujisawa (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a medical image of a lung field of a patient, identifies anatomical regions constituting the thorax of the patient based on the medical image, estimates a respiratory state when the medical im...