US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on July 14 for "System, method, and computer program product for segmenting an image" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,011, issued on July 14, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"System, method, and computer program product for segmenting an image" was invented by John Michael Galeotti (Pittsburgh) and Ling Yu Hung (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems, methods, and computer program products for segmenting an image. A method includes segmenting each image in a sequence of images including a needle into a needle and at least one needle artifact based on processing each image with a first machine-learning model trained with a plurality of hard labels for a plurality of images, resulting in a plurality of ...