US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on June 10 for "Image segmentation and tracking based on statistical shape model" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,359, issued on June 10, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Image segmentation and tracking based on statistical shape model" was invented by Xiao Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiaoling Hu (Setauket-East Setauket, N.Y.), Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.) and Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with segmenting and/or determining the shape of an anatomical structure. An artificial neural network (ANN) is used to perform these tasks based on a stat...