US Patent Issued to IMAGOWORKS on April 21 for "Method of automatic segmentation of maxillofacial bone in CT image using deep learning" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,810, issued on April 21, was assigned to IMAGOWORKS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of automatic segmentation of maxillofacial bone in CT image using deep learning" was invented by Seungbin Park (Seoul, South Korea), Eung June Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatic segmentation of a maxillofacial bone in a CT image using a deep learning, the method includes receiving input CT slices of the CT image including the maxillofacial bone, segmenting the input CT slices into a mandible and a portion of the maxillofacial bone excluding the mandible using a convol...