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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2010
Applicants:
Le LU, Chalfont, PA (US);
Jun MA, Towson, MD (US);
Marcos Salganicoff, Bala Cynwyd, PA (US);
Yiqiang Zhan, Berwyn, PA (US);
Xiang Sean Zhou, Exton, PA (US);
Inventors:
Le Lu, Chalfont, PA (US);
Jun Ma, Towson, MD (US);
Marcos Salganicoff, Bala Cynwyd, PA (US);
Yiqiang Zhan, Berwyn, PA (US);
Xiang Sean Zhou, Exton, PA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatic accurate and efficient segmentation and identification of one or more vertebra in digital medical images using a coarse-to-fine segmentation.