US Patent Issued to ATHEROSOFT on Feb. 10 for "Method, apparatus, and recording medium for analyzing coronary plaque tissue through ultrasound image-based deep learning" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,153, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ATHEROSOFT Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus, and recording medium for analyzing coronary plaque tissue through ultrasound image-based deep learning" was invented by Soo Jin Kang (Seoul, South Korea), June Goo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Joo Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Seok Min (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a plaque tissue component based on deep learning, the method including: extracting a plurality of first intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) cross-sectional images into which a first IVUS image that is a preprocedural IVUS image ...