ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,543, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Organ segmentation in image" was invented by Tuan T. Tran (Plano, Texas) and Raymond Samaniego (Prosper, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for organ mask generation. A device, system and method for organ mask generation including generating a synthetic centroid mask, identifying first and second intensity thresholds, in a first segmentation pass, setting (i) pixels of an image with intensities less than the first threshold to zero and (ii) pixels of the image corresponding to objects with centroids outside t...