US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University on Jan. 28 for "Intra-perinodular textural transition (ipris): a three dimenisonal (3D) descriptor for nodule diagnosis on lung computed tomography (CT) images" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. RE50,286, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"Intra-perinodular textural transition (ipris): a three dimenisonal (3D) descriptor for nodule diagnosis on lung computed tomography (CT) images" was invented by Anant Madabhushi (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Mehdi Alilou (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments classify lung nodules by accessing a 3D radiological image of a region of tissue, the 3D image including a plurality of voxels and slices, a slice having a thickness; segmenting the nodule represented in the 3D image across contiguous slices, the nodule having a 3D volume and 3D inter...