US Patent Issued to QILU HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Machine vision-based method for rapidly detecting scar contour" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,404, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QILU HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY ((QINGDAO) Qingdao, China).

"Machine vision-based method for rapidly detecting scar contour" was invented by Haiguang Zhao (Qingdao, China) and Ziqi Wang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of image processing, in particular to a machine vision-based method for rapidly detecting a scar contour, including: collecting to-be-detected neck images of a number of persons; obtaining a scar color difference salient degree and a scar brightness difference salient degree of each superpixel block according ...