US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on May 27 for "Systems and methods for tracking groups of objects in medical images" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,218, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for tracking groups of objects in medical images" was invented by Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Luojie Huang (Baltimore), Zhang Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Shanhui Sun (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with tracking groups of small objects in medical images. The tracking may be accomplished by, for each one of a sequence of medical images, determining a plurality of candidate objects captured in the me...