US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 13 for "Auto segmentation using 2-D images taken during 3-D imaging spin" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,893, issued on May 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Auto segmentation using 2-D images taken during 3-D imaging spin" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method of more efficiently identifying and segmenting anatomical structures from 2-D cone beam CT images, rather than from reconstructed 3-D volume data, is disclosed. An image processing system receives, from a cone beam CT device, at least one 2-D x-ray image, which is part of a set of x-ray images taken from a 360 degree scan of a patient with a cone beam CT ...