US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Medical image abnormality detection system and abnormality detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,400, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medical image abnormality detection system and abnormality detection method" was invented by Masahiro Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Kondo (Fukui, Japan), Masato Tanaka (Fukui, Japan) and Shinichi Fujimoto (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormality detection system is a system that detects, based on a medical image, whether a prespecified anatomical structure included in the medical image is abnormal, and includes: an obtainer that obtains block information indicating one or more blocks that are each a region in which pixels representing ...