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System, method, and computer program product for determining a needle injection site

Grant US12579740B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Carnegie Mellon University

Inventors

John Michael Galeotti, Edward Chen

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.

CPC Classifications

G06T 7/10 G06T 2207/10028 G06T 2207/30004 G06T 7/55 G06T 19/00 G06T 7/77 G06T 17/00 G06T 2207/20084 G06T 2210/41 G06T 2207/10132 G16H 20/40 G16H 30/40 G16H 50/20 G16H 50/70 G16H 50/50 A61B 17/3403 A61B 34/10 A61B 2034/107 A61B 2017/3409

Filing Date

2022-03-25

Application No.

18284174

Claims

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