US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 24 for "Method for identifying a material boundary in volumetric image data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,206, issued on March 24, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for identifying a material boundary in volumetric image data" was invented by Jorg Sabczynski (Norderstedt, Germany), Rafael Wiemker (Kisdorf, Germany) and Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a material boundary within volumetric image data is based on use of a model boundary transition function, which models the expected progression of voxel values across the material boundary, as a function of distance. Each voxel is taken in turn, and voxel values within a subregion surrounding th...