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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John Michael Galeotti, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Edward Chen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for determining a needle injection site. The method includes segmenting, with at least one computing device, an image of a sequence of images into at least one object based on a machine-learning model configured to estimate its uncertainty for each segmentation, generating, with the at least one computing device, a 3D model of the at least one object, and determining, with the at least one computing device, an insertion location of the at least one object based at least partially on an output of the machine-learning model.