US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on May 5 for "Methods and systems for automated analysis of cervix elastography" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,448, issued on May 5, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for automated analysis of cervix elastography" was invented by Mostafa Shahriari Shourabi (Upper Austria, Austria) and Christian Perrey (Upper Austria, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for cervix elastographic analysis. In one embodiment, the method comprises acquiring an ultrasound scene comprising a plurality of frames, generating a first loss image for the plurality of frames, selecting a background and a foreground of the ultrasound scene based on the first loss image, and generatin...