ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,202, issued on March 24, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for automatic segmentation of tumor sub-compartments in pediatric cancer using multiparametric MRI" was invented by Pallavi Tiwari (Madison, Wis.) and Rohan Bareja (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for accurate segmentation of pediatric tumors using MRI images to improve disease diagnosis, prognosis, patient treatment and surgical planning. Specifically, systems and method herein perform segmentation of pediatric tumor sub-compartments using a fully automate...