US Patent Issued to SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "System and method for segmenting three- dimensional images of pancreases and tumors" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,812, issued on April 21, was assigned to SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"System and method for segmenting three- dimensional images of pancreases and tumors" was invented by Jie Xue (Jinan, China), Dengwang Li (Jinan, China), Xiyu Liu (Jinan, China), Qi Li (Jinan, China), Guanzhong Gong (Jinan, China), Jianbo Wang (Jinan, China) and Pu Huang (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for segmenting three-dimensional images of pancreases and tumors, including: acquiring 3D images of the pancreas and the tumor and preprocessing same with a soft tissue window to control the intensity value of the image...