US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 9 for "Medical image segmentation and atlas image selection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,280, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Medical image segmentation and atlas image selection" was invented by Matthias Lenga (Mainz, Germany), Tobias Wissel (Lubeck, Germany) and Rolf Juergen Weese (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a segmentation of medical images. For example, a medical image may be registering to multiple atlas images after which a segmentation function may be applied. Multiple segmentation may be fused into a final overall segmentation. The atlas images may be selected on the basis of high segmentation quality ...