ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,583, issued on June 30, was assigned to GIVEN IMAGING LTD. (Yoqneam, Israel).
"Systems and methods for polyp size estimation" was invented by Eyal Dekel (Haifa, Israel), Dov Eilot (Yokneam, Israel) and Dori Peleg (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating a size of a suspected polyp in an image includes accessing an image of in at least a portion of a gastrointestinal tract (GIT) captured by a capsule endoscopy device, wherein the image includes a suspected polyp; receiving an indication to an approximated periphery of the suspected polyp in the image; determining, without human...