US Patent Issued to GIVEN IMAGING on July 28 for "Systems and methods for identifying images containing indicators of a celiac-like disease" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,514, issued on July 28, was assigned to GIVEN IMAGING LTD (Yoqneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods for identifying images containing indicators of a celiac-like disease" was invented by Eyal Dekel (Haifa, Israel), Almog Elharar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Stas Rozenfeld (Hod HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting indicators of a disease characterized by a presence of villous atrophy in images of a gastrointestinal tract (GIT), includes accessing a consecutive set of images of a portion of the GIT comprising a small bowel. Each image is associated with one or more classification scores, and each classificatio...