US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 8 for "System and method for CNN segmentation for automated key phase detection in dynamic contrast-enhanced liver MRI" (Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,255, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for CNN segmentation for automated key phase detection in dynamic contrast-enhanced liver MRI" was invented by Joshua Ian Haddad (Chicago), Ty Allen Cashen (Madison, Wis.), Xinzeng Wang (Houston) and Arnaud Guidon (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring a series of images over time from a liver of a subject injected with a contrast bolus, wherein the series of images span multiple phases of the contrast-enhanced scan. The method includes inputting the series of images into a trained neural net...