US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Synthetic generation of clinical skin images in pathology" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,356, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Synthetic generation of clinical skin images in pathology" was invented by Vivek Natarajan (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuan Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), David Coz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Amirata Ghorbani (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We disclose the generation and training of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to synthesize clinical images with skin conditions. Synthetic images for a pre-specified skin condition are generated, while being able to vary its size, location and the underlying skin color. We demonstrate that the genera...