ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,652, issued on June 23.

"Deep learning method, apparatus, device, and medium for joint optimization based on vascular centerline guidance" was invented by Hui Feng (Hangzhou, China), Fandong Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yizhou Yu (Hangzhou, China), Yiming Li (Hangzhou, China) and Xin Qiao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a deep learning method, apparatus, device, and medium for task joint optimization based on vascular centerline guidance, including: in a process of extracting a global image feature by an encoder, extracting a local image feature after performing data augmentation on a local image ...