US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 3 for "Deep learning volumetric deformable registration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,852, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Deep learning volumetric deformable registration" was invented by Albert Hsiao (San Diego) and Kyle Hasenstab (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automated deformable registration of an organ from medical images includes generating segmentations of the organ by processing a first and second series of images corresponding to different organ states using a first trained CNN. A second trained CNN processes the first and second series of images and the segmentations to deformably register the second s...