US Patent Issued to EMAGIX on March 31 for "System and method for detecting and classifying retinal microaneurysms" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,057, issued on March 31, was assigned to EMAGIX INC. (Halifax, Canada).

"System and method for detecting and classifying retinal microaneurysms" was invented by Colyn Munn (Halifax, Canada), Lyn Kamintsky (Halifax, Canada), Alon Friedman (Halifax, Canada), James Kukurin (Halifax, Canada) and Amirreza Abbasnejad (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and classifying retinal microaneurysms. The method including: receiving a time sequence of fluorescein angiography input images; generating a binary map of hyperfluorescent elements in the input images; determining which hyperfluorescent element...