US Patent Issued to Hoffmann-La Roche on Sept. 1 for "Multiple instance learner for tissue image classification" (Israeli, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,713, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Multiple instance learner for tissue image classification" was invented by Ido Ben Shaul (Raanana, Israel), Jacob Gildenblat (Holon, Israel) and Eldad Klaiman (Starnberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes, for each of a plurality of tiles of an image, extracting a feature vector from the tile; providing a Multiple-Instance-Learning program configured to use a model for classifying any input image as a member of one out of at least two different classes based on feature vectors extracted from the tiles; for each of the tiles,...