US Patent Issued to Hologic on June 23 for "Correlating regions of interest" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,656, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Correlating regions of interest" was invented by Zhenxue Jing (Marlborough, Mass.) and Shawn St. Pierre (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying a region of interest in breast tissue use artificial intelligence to confirm that a target lesion identified during initial imaging the breast tissue has been identified in a subsequent imaging session. A computing system operating a lesion matching engine uses a machine learning classifier algorithm trained on cases of initial and subsequent two-dimensional or three-dime...