US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 24 for "Cross-modality neural network transform for semi-automatic medical image annotation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,963, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross-modality neural network transform for semi-automatic medical image annotation" was invented by Yufan Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Mehdi Moradi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-modality neural network transform for semi-automatic medical image annotation is provided. In various embodiments, an input medical image is mapped to a first vector in a text vector space. The first vector corresponds to the features of the medical image. A set of predetermined vectors is searched for a closest one of the predetermined vec...