US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 30 for "Segmenting retinal OCT images with inter-B-scan and longitudinal information" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,779, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Segmenting retinal OCT images with inter-B-scan and longitudinal information" was invented by Jerry L. Prince (Timonium, Md.), Aaron Carass (Towson, Md.) and Yufan He (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for retinal layer segmentation are presented. The techniques include obtaining current optical coherence tomography (OCT) data for a retina; generating an estimated current en face image based on the current OCT data and an estimated current retinal layer segmentation; determining a registered previous retinal layer segmentation based...