US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Dec. 2 for "Image processing apparatus and method for highlighting pixels based on regional intensity value distribution" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,468, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method for highlighting pixels based on regional intensity value distribution" was invented by Hirokazu Atsumori (Tokyo), Stephanie Sutoko (Tokyo), Tsukasa Funane (Tokyo), Ayako Nishimura (Tokyo) and Akihiko Kandori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a medical image, a region setting unit setting a peripheral region around an inner region set in the medical image as a region including a lesion, an intensity value ratio distribution calculation unit calculating a hist...