US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on June 16 for "Methods and devices for medical image processing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,715, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and devices for medical image processing" was invented by Feng-Gang Jia (Shanghai) and Wen-Jun Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for medical image processing is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of frames of medical image data including a reference frame and at least one floating frame, each of the reference frame and the floating frame including a target region and a background region; performing image segmentation on the reference frame to obtain a mask for the target region in the referenc...