US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Lesion detection and segmentation" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,197, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Lesion detection and segmentation" was invented by Wen Wei (Palaiseau, France), Giovanni John Jacques Palma (Velizy Villacoublay, France) and Amin Katouzian (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for detecting lesions in diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) images. The mechanisms receive a first set of DWI images corresponding to a anatomical structure, from medical imaging computer system(s). The first set of DWI images comprises a plurality of DWI images having at least two different b-values. The mechanisms ...