US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Feb. 10 for "Preserving tumor volumes for unsupervised medical image registration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,109, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Preserving tumor volumes for unsupervised medical image registration" was invented by Jing Liao (Hong Kong), Yan Xu (Hong Kong), Qihua Dong (Hong Kong), Hao Du (Hong Kong), Xin Wang (Beijing) and Ying Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Similarity-based deformable registration of medical images that contain tumor regions often undesirably leads to disproportionate volume changes to tumor regions. An image-registration framework for preserving tumor volumes while promoting similarity in non-tumor part is provided. The framework involves a two-s...