ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,997, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mint Labs Inc. (Duxbury, Mass.).
"Fiber tracking and segmentation" was invented by Vesna Prchkovska (Barcelona, Spain), Paulo Reis Rodrigues (Barcelona, Spain) and Matthew Rowe (Duxbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution can segment tracts by performing two-pass tractography. The system can first perform deterministic tractography and then probabilistic tractography. The system can use the result from the deterministic tractography to update and refine initial identified regions of interest. The refined regions of interest can be used to filter and select streamlines ide...