US Patent Issued to Wuxi EA Medical Instruments Technologies on June 23 for "Method of segmenting computed tomography images of teeth" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,651, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wuxi EA Medical Instruments Technologies Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method of segmenting computed tomography images of teeth" was invented by Yuan Tian (Shanghai), Yang Feng (Shanghai) and Ge Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of segmenting computed tomography images of teeth comprising obtaining a first 3D digital model representing crowns of erupted teeth of a first jaw and a 2D CT image sequence of the first jaw; using a local image classification model to select from the sequence, for each erupted tooth, a 2D CT image from which segmentation of the erup...