ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,809, issued on March 17, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Method and system for defining a boundary of a region of interest by applying threshold values to outputs of a probabilistic automatic segmentation model based on user-selected segmentation sensitivity levels" was invented by Kristin Sarah McLeod (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for defining a boundary of a region of interest in an ultrasound image are provided. The method includes receiving an ultrasound image having pixels and automatically processing the ultrasound image to output a probability of each of the pi...