US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 7 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,405, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Takuma Igarashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Satoshi Wakai (Nasushiobara, Japan), Kazumasa Arakita (Nasushiobara, Japan), Hideaki Ishii (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yasuko Fujisawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shigeo Kaminaga (Otawara, Japan), Kenji Hirohata (Tokyo) and Junichiro Ooga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a medical image processing apparatus which includes a first extraction unit configured to extract coronary arteries depicted in images of a plur...