ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,752, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image analysis method and device" was invented by Tobias Wissel (Lubeck, Germany), Irina Waechter-Stehle (Hamburg, Germany), Frank Michael Weber (Hamburg, Germany) and Arne Ewald (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image analysis method and device is for detecting failure or error in an image segmentation procedure. The method comprises comparing (14) segmentation outcomes for two or more images, representative of a particular anatomical region at different respective time points, and identifying a degree of consistency or devi...