US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for facilitating reading of medical images" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,923, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for facilitating reading of medical images" was invented by Abhivyakti Sawarkar (Swansea, Mass.) and Vadiraj Krishnamurthy Hombal (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for facilitating reading of medical images on a display. The method includes receiving a current medical image corresponding to a subject, and displaying the current medical image; performing image segmentation of the current medical image using a deep learning algorithm to identify a region of interest, and displaying ...