ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,704, issued on June 30, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Method for establishing 3D medical image segmentation model based on masked modeling and application thereof" was invented by Xuming Zhang (Hubei, China) and Quan Zhou (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for establishing a 3D medical image segmentation model based on masked modeling and application thereof includes: establishing a semi-supervised learning network, wherein a student network includes an encoding module for extracting latent features and a segmentation decoder that predicts segmentation r...