US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Nov. 3 for "Saliency maps for medical imaging" (Russian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,410, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Saliency maps for medical imaging" was invented by Sergey Kastryulin (Moscow), Alexey Chernyavskiy (Moscow) and Nicola Pezzotti (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120). The memory (110) further stores a trained first machine learning module (122) trained to output in response to receiving a medical image (124) as input a saliency map (126) as output. The saliency map (126) is predictive of a distribution of user atten...