US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Nov. 18 for "Removing an image defect occuring in a medical image before examination based on the generation time point" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,554, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Removing an image defect occuring in a medical image before examination based on the generation time point" was invented by Akira Iguchi (Mishima, Japan), Yusuke Seki (Tokyo) and Yuki Sakaguchi (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program code executed by a computer processor that executes an imaging process comprising: acquiring a medical image generated based on a signal detected by a catheter insertable into a body lumen; estimating a cause of an image defect by inputting the acquired medical image to ...