US Patent Issued to Exo Imaging on June 16 for "Apparatus and method for image segmentation using a deep convolutional neural network with a nested U-structure" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,731, issued on June 16, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for image segmentation using a deep convolutional neural network with a nested U-structure" was invented by Xuebin Qin (Edmonton, Canada), Zichen Zhang (Edmonton, Canada), Masood Dehghan (Edmonton, Canada) and Dornoosh Zonoobi (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives an image. The image is applied to a sequence of encoders that includes a first encoder and one or more subsequent encoders, each including a U network encoder which performs convolution neural network processing. The one or more subsequent encod...