US Patent Issued to Progenics Pharmaceuticals, EXINI Diagnostics on April 14 for "Systems and methods for rapid neural network-based image segmentation and radiopharmaceutical uptake determination" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,772, issued on April 14, was assigned to Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. (N. Billerica, Mass.) and EXINI Diagnostics AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Systems and methods for rapid neural network-based image segmentation and radiopharmaceutical uptake determination" was invented by Karl Vilhelm Sjostrand (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.), Jens Filip Andreas Richter (Lund, Sweden), Kerstin Elsa Maria Johnsson (Lund, Sweden) and Erik Konrad Gjertsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods that provide for automated analysis of three-dimensional (3D) medical images of a subject in order to automatically identif...