US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Sept. 1 for "Convolutional long short-term memory networks for rapid medical image segmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,261, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Convolutional long short-term memory networks for rapid medical image segmentation" was invented by Piotr Slomka (Los Angeles), Aditya Killekar (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sebastien Cadet (Los Angeles) and Damini Dey (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Convolutional long short-term memory (LSTM) networks are leveraged to segment and/or quantify medical imaging data. A multi-branch architecture makes use of an attention branch and a main branch. The main branch includes a dense block followed by a segmentation head, and is configured to consider a...