ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,709, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lumicell Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"System and method for thresholding for residual cancer cell detection" was invented by David B. Strasfeld (Somerville, Mass.), Jorge Ferrer (West Newton, Mass.) and W. David Lee (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments related to methods of use of an image analysis system for identifying residual cancer cells after surgery are disclosed. In some embodiments, a patient-specific threshold used to detect abnormal cells in a surgical site can be determined. A medical imaging device can be configured to produce a set of images of an anatomy of a pat...