US Patent Issued to INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO on March 31 for "Correlating geometric shapes of segmented regions by at least two different imaging technologies for improved identification of breast lesions" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,964, issued on March 31, was assigned to INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO (Lisbon, Portugal).

"Correlating geometric shapes of segmented regions by at least two different imaging technologies for improved identification of breast lesions" was invented by Francisco Maria Galamba Ferrari Calisto (Lisbon, Portugal) and Jacinto Carlos Marques Peixoto Nascimento (Odivelas, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention falls within the field of medical imaging, specifically imaging aimed at identifying breast lesions, specifically, identifying potential breast cancer lesion masses or potential cancer lesion calcifications of the...