US Patent Issued to GACHON UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, GIL MEDICAL CENTER on May 20 for "System and method for segmentating brain in MRI images" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,678, issued on May 20, was assigned to GACHON UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and GIL MEDICAL CENTER (Incheon, South Korea).

"System and method for segmentating brain in MRI images" was invented by Jun Young Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Young Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo-Ram Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a system and method for segmentating brain in MRI images. According to an embodiment, it is possible to overcome limitations that gray matter is estimated to be smaller than the actual size in brain segmentation performed for quantitative anal...