ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,947, issued on July 29.
"System and method for detecting lung abnormalities" was invented by Fleming Yuan-Ming Lure (Potomac, Md.), Shenwen Quan (Shenzhen, China), Hao Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Kunlei Hong (Shenzhen, China), Qian Xiao (Shenzhen, China) and Lingjun Qian (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting lung abnormalities is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring a chest image of a subject; labeling one or more regions of interest (ROIs) in the chest image; segmenting a fine-grained boundary of each of the labeled ROIs; generating a plurality of output matrixes for...