US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on July 8 for "Three dimensional object segmentation of medical images localized with object detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,264, issued on July 8, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Three dimensional object segmentation of medical images localized with object detection" was invented by Luke Xie (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kai Henrick Barck (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Omid Bazgir (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for segmenting objects within medical images using a deep learning network that is localized with object detection based on a derived contrast mechanism. Particularly, aspects are directed to localizing an object of interest within a first me...