ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,568, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Anatomy-driven augmentation of medical images" was invented by Arathi Sreekumari (Bangalore, India), Krishna Seetharam Shriram (Bengaluru, India), Deepa Anand (Bangalore, India), Pavan Annangi (Bangalore, India), Bhushan Patil (Pune, India) and Stephan W. Anzengruber (Ried im Innkreis, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate anatomy-driven augmentation of medical images are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a medical image and a ground-truth segmentation mask corresponding to the medical image, ...