The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex Parte XIAOLAN ZENG, WEI ZHANG, and ALEXANDER C. SCHNEIDER
Appeal No. 2006-3040
Application No. 10/261,196
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1 and 3-52, which constitute all the claims pending in this application.
The examiner has now indicated that claims 48-52 contain allowable subject matter
[answer, page 13]. Therefore, this appeal is directed to the rejection of claims 1 and 3-47.
The disclosed invention pertains to methods and apparatus for segmenting an
anatomical image. The disclosed invention particularly relates to a first step of
presegmenting the image at a reduced resolution to identify a particular region and a
second step of further segmenting the identified region at a higher resolution to identify
finer anatomical structures.
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