US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 11 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic device and diagnostic assisting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,417, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic diagnostic device and diagnostic assisting method" was invented by Tomofumi Nishiura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection unit detects a lesion candidate contained in display frame data (a tomographic image), using a machine learned detection model. An exclusion processing unit collates a feature vector of the detected lesion candidate with feature vectors registered in an exclusion database to determine whether the detected lesion candidate is an exclusion target. When the detected lesion candidate is an exclusion target, a mark display...