US Patent Issued to HITACHI on May 27 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,633, issued on May 27, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Yun Li (Tokyo), Hanae Yoshida (Tokyo) and Mayumi Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method that can improve extraction accuracy of a tumor region included in a diagnosis target image are provided. The medical image processing apparatus configured to extract a predetermined region from a diagnosis target image includes: an organ extraction unit configured to extract an organ region from the diagnosis target ima...