US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Segmentation of computed tomography voxel data using machine learning" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,294, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Segmentation of computed tomography voxel data using machine learning" was invented by Ariane Stiebeiner (Stuttgart, Germany), Georgios Balatzis (Fellbach, Germany) and Vivek Vrujlal Vekariya (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes creating two-dimensional (2D) slices from a plurality of computed tomography (CT) voxel data sets. The method further includes adding artificial noise to the 2D slices to generate artificially noisy 2D slices. The method further includes creating patches fro...