US Patent Issued to Spin Tech on June 17 for "Systems and methods for template-based automatic detection of anatomical structures" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,720, issued on June 17, was assigned to Spin Tech Inc. (Bingham Farms, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for template-based automatic detection of anatomical structures" was invented by Ewart Mark Haacke (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.) and Ying Wang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting anatomical structures include, for each training subject of a plurality of training subjects, a corresponding MR image, and generating an initial anatomical template based on a first training subject of the plurality of training subjects. A computing device can map MR images of the other training subjects onto a templat...