US Patent Issued to William Beaumont Hospital on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for image processing to identify patients with pulmonary embolism" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,258, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for image processing to identify patients with pulmonary embolism" was invented by Edward Castillo (Austin, Texas) and Girish B. Nair (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing images of lungs including defining lung segmentation of the lungs, performing deformable image registration on the segmented lungs, performing ventilation estimation operations to determine a ventilation estimation, performing perfusion estimation operations to determine a perfusion estimation, comparing the ventilation...