US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "System and method for detecting and classifying abnormal cells" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,743, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for detecting and classifying abnormal cells" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh), Ibrahim Majeed Alkanhal (Pittsburgh), Kai Hu (Pittsburgh), Fangyi Chen (Pittsburgh) and Xiaoying Zhang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for training a network to detect and classify abnormal pathologies in images if cells. Specifically, the network uses a deep framework optimally trained to detect and classify abnormal cervical cells in pap smear images."

The patent was filed on Nov. 19, 2021, under Applic...