ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,590, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program" was invented by Takafumi Koike (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device determines whether each tumor candidate regions detected from a plurality of tomographic images indicating a plurality of tomographic planes of an object is a tumor or a local mass of a mammary gland, selects a first tomographic image group from the plurality of tomographic images in a first region determined to be the tumor, selects a second tomographic image group from the plurality ...