US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Feb. 18 for "Decoupling divide-and-conquer facial nerve segmentation method and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,019, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Decoupling divide-and-conquer facial nerve segmentation method and device" was invented by Jing Wang (Hangzhou, China), Bo Dong (Hangzhou, China), Hongjian He (Hangzhou, China) and Xiujun Cai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a decoupling divide-and-conquer facial nerve segmentation method and device. As for the characteristics of a small facial nerve structure and a low contrast, a facial nerve segmentation model including a feature extraction module, a rough segmentation module, and a fine segmentation modul...