US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University on Feb. 17 for "Hierarchical deep learning approach for segmentation of glioblastoma tumor niches on digital histopathology" (American, Colombian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,229, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"Hierarchical deep learning approach for segmentation of glioblastoma tumor niches on digital histopathology" was invented by Pallavi Tiwari (Wexford, Pa.), Alvaro Andres Sandino Garzon (Madison, Wis.) and Eduardo Romero (Bogota, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method for generating a prognosis. The method may be performed by providing one or more digitized biopsy images of a patient having a glioma. One or more necrotic regions and one or more non-necrotic regions are identified within...