US Patent Issued to Veran Medical Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Methods for the segmentation of lungs, lung vasculature and lung lobes from CT data and clinical applications" (Colorado, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,572, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Veran Medical Technologies Inc. (St. Louis).

"Methods for the segmentation of lungs, lung vasculature and lung lobes from CT data and clinical applications" was invented by Andrew Dougherty (Denver) and Mark Hunter (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and processes for segmentation of lungs lobes from CT image data are disclosed. Lobe segmentation relies on other segmentations, including the lungs, the lung airways and vasculature. Segmentation methods and processes begin with the acquisition of 3-D image data such as from a high resolution CT scan of a patient's lungs or at least a r...