US Patent Issued to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) on Oct. 28 for "Skeletonization of medical images from incomplete and noisy voxel data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,237, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Skeletonization of medical images from incomplete and noisy voxel data" was invented by Leonid Zaides (Atlit, Israel), Fady Massarwa (Baka al Gharbiyya, Israel) and Lior Zar (Poria Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a skeleton in an image of a cavity of an organ of a body includes receiving a map of the cavity, the map including surface voxels and interior voxels. A subset of the interior voxels is generated, of candidate locations to be on the skeleton. The subset is pruned by removing outlier candidate locati...