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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2022
Applicant:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 8/0883 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/5269 (2013.01); A61B 2576/023 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20096 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, there is provided a medical image processing apparatus and method for estimating a contour of a desired structure, such as a cardiac muscle, based on a medical image, such as an ultrasound image, and cross section information of the desired structure, receiving a desired correction mode from among multiple correction modes for correcting the estimated contour, each of the multiple correction modes having a correction amount set corresponding to the information on the cross section, and correcting the estimated contour according to the desired correction mode.