US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Nov. 11 for "Weakly-supervised 3D medical image segmentation using geometric prior and contrastive similarity" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,147, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Weakly-supervised 3D medical image segmentation using geometric prior and contrastive similarity" was invented by Jing Liao (Hong Kong), Yan Xu (Hong Kong), Hao Du (Hong Kong) and Qihua Dong (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weakly-supervised framework for segmenting a three-dimensional (3D) medical image incorporates information of geometric prior and contrastive similarity in a loss-based fashion for enhancing distinguishability of an organ in presence of complex organ shape and image artifacts (e.g., low-contrast tissues) in the image. Tra...