ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,561, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and systems for medical image segmentation" was invented by Lu Xu (Shanghai) and Yifeng Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a first image associated with an image to be segmented, and performing an iteration process for obtaining a target image. The iteration process may include one or more iterations each of which includes: obtaining an image to be modified; obtaining one or more modifications performed on the image to be modified; generating a second image by inputting the image to be seg...