US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Nov. 18 for "Machine learning approach for coronary 3D reconstruction from X-ray angiography images" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,559, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Machine learning approach for coronary 3D reconstruction from X-ray angiography images" was invented by Raj Rao Nadakuditi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brahmajee Kartik Nallamothu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Carlos Alberto Figueroa-Alvarez (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kritika Iyer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ismael Assi (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing 3D vessel tree reconstruction includes providing segmented binary angiography images, applying a distance transform to the images, and generating distance transformed binary angiograp...