US Patent Issued to Novocure on June 2 for "Edge detection brush" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,609, issued on June 2, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Edge detection brush" was invented by Mor Vardi (Haifa, Israel), Gil Zigelman (Haifa, Israel) and Samer Ghantous (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a medical image of a subject is provided. The method includes presenting on a display a slice through the medical image of the subject. The medical image includes voxels. The method further includes performing automatic edge detection in the slice of the medical image to obtain a segmented slice. The automatic edge detection is based on a user selected voxel in the slice of the med...