US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on Dec. 30 for "Method for detecting a rib with a medical image, device, and medium" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,745, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for detecting a rib with a medical image, device, and medium" was invented by Heng Guo (Hangzhou, China), Jianfeng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Minfeng Xu (Beijing) and Le Lyu (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a rib with a medical image, a device and a medium are provided. Feature coding is performed, by using a neural network model, on different rib regions in the medical image to obtain multiple feature vectors. According to a learned corresponding relationship between rib query items and the different rib regi...