[Insight-users] Algo for Dicom Segmentation

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Mathieu" == Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com> writes:

    Mathieu> Arun, The ITK version of the marching cubes is called:
    Mathieu> itk::BinaryMask3DMeshSource:

    Mathieu> http://www.itk.org/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1BinaryMask3DMeshSource.html

    Mathieu> But I am still confused why it is in Code/Common and not
    Mathieu> Code/Patented...


I am thinking that perhaps the marching cubes patent is expired.  It
was issued on December 1, 1987 [1], and if it is a utility and plant
patent (is it?) then I think those issued prior to June 8, 1995 expire
17 years from the date of issue.  Which means it would have expired on
Dec 2004.

But I'm not sure....

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=4710876.WKU.&OS=PN/4710876&RS=PN/4710876