ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,932, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for learning foundation models from anatomy in medical imaging for use with medical image classification and segmentation" was invented by Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher (Tempe, Ariz.) and Jianming Liang (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Human anatomical structures are extracted from medical images. A foundation model is generated by learning the human anatomical structures, resulting in generic representations of the human anatomical structures. The human anato...