US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for segmenting a medical image sequence" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,108, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for segmenting a medical image sequence" was invented by Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may obtain a sequence of medical images of a target structure and determine, using a first ANN, a first segmentation and a second segmentation of the target structure based on a first medical image and a second medical image, respectively. The first segmentation...