US Patent Issued to Genentech on Dec. 2 for "Weakly supervised lesion segmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,465, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Weakly supervised lesion segmentation" was invented by Yury Anatolievich Petrov (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Richard Alan Duray Carano (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) can be trained, where the GAN includes an anomaly-removing Generator network configured to modify a medical image to remove a depiction of a biological anomaly and one or more Discriminator networks (each configured to discriminate between real and fake images). The anomaly-removing Generator network can then receiv...