US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 16 for "Deep learning cardiac segmentation and motion visualization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,724, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Deep learning cardiac segmentation and motion visualization" was invented by Francisco Contijoch (San Diego), Zhennong Chen (San Diego), Davis Vigneault (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marzia Rigolli (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for automated segmentation and slicing of cardiac computed tomography (CT) images are described. An example method includes receiving a first plurality of input image frames associated with a cardiac CT operation, each of the first plurality of input image frames co...