ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,542, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Methods and systems for extracting blood vessel" was invented by Xiaodong Wang (Shanghai), Wenjun Yu (Shanghai), Yufei Mao (Shanghai), Xu Wang (Shanghai), Ke Wu (Shanghai), Ce Wang (Shanghai), Peng Zhao (Shanghai) and Chuanfeng Lv (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a centerline of a blood vessel in an image associated with a subject is provided. The method includes obtaining a centerline model used for identifying a centerline of a blood vessel and identifying the centerline of the blood vessel based on the ...