US Patent Issued to Hologic on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for identifying regions of interest in multiple imaging modalities" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,980, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for identifying regions of interest in multiple imaging modalities" was invented by Shawn St. Pierre (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a location of a region of interest within a breast utilizes compressed location coordinates for the region of interest recorded while the breast is under compression during an x-ray imaging procedure such as mammography or tomosynthesis. The compressed location coordinates are converted to uncompressed location coordinates using a mathematical tissue deformation mode...