US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Jan. 27 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program for facilitating image diagnosis using mammography apparatus to generate composite two-dimensional tomographic image using selected tomographic image slices corresponding to detected spicula regions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,649, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program for facilitating image diagnosis using mammography apparatus to generate composite two-dimensional tomographic image using selected tomographic image slices corresponding to detected spicula regions" was invented by Takafumi Koike (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device detects a spicula candidate region having a radial line structure from each of a plurality of tomographic images indicating a plurality of tomographic planes of an object, selects, as a tomog...