ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,554, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image processing" was invented by Germond Rouet (Paris) and Haithem Boussaid (Chatenay Malabry, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are concepts for training a neural network (100), NN, for medical image segmentation. Such concepts include embedding of a shape regularization constraints into learned weights of the NN. Such shape constraints can impose that the output of the segmentation process is anatomically meaningful and further regularized. In this way, improved performance for medical image segmentation may be achieved by prop...