US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on May 12 for "Systems and methods for image registration" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,377, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image registration" was invented by Hongcheng Yang (Shanghai) and Jonathan Maltz (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image registration are provided. The method may include obtaining a reference image of an object (510); the object includes a target volume; determining a registration mask associated with a region of interest (ROI) based on the reference image (520), the ROI includes at least a portion of the target volume; obtaining a target image of the object (530); and performing an ima...