US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Automatic ablation antenna segmentation from CT image" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,449, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Automatic ablation antenna segmentation from CT image" was invented by Qi Tang (Shanghai), Darren G. Girotto (Louisville, Colo.) and Jianxin Ou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in accordance with the present disclosure are systems and methods for identifying a percutaneous tool in image data. An exemplary method includes receiving image data of at least a portion of a patient's body, identifying an entry point of a percutaneous tool through the patient's skin in the image data, analyzing a portion of the image data including the entry point of the...