US Patent Issued to FEops on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for automatically detecting anatomical features for preoperative cardiac implant simulations" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,997, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FEops NV (Ghent, Belgium).

"Systems and methods for automatically detecting anatomical features for preoperative cardiac implant simulations" was invented by Kilian Michiels (Oostduinkerke, Belgium), Eva Heffinck (Kortrijk, Belgium) and Patricio Astudillo (Drongen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for fully automated anatomical analysis of an anatomical structure are provided to facilitate pre-operative planning. The computerized method may include obtaining a plurality of images, e.g., MSCT images, of patient-specific cardiovascular anatomy, and analyzing the MSCT ima...