ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,569, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Methods and systems for segmenting images" was invented by Matthias Lenga (Mainz, Germany), Christian Buerger (Hamburg, Germany) and Steffen Renisch (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of segmenting a feature in an image, an image product related to the image is provided (102) to a model trained using a machine learning process. An indication of a shape descriptor for the feature in the image is received (104) from the model, based on the image product. The indicated shape descriptor is then used (106) in a model based...