US Patent Issued to MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL on Feb. 17 for "Method for identifying and treating heart failure with preserved ejection fraction" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,687, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for identifying and treating heart failure with preserved ejection fraction" was invented by Chung-Lieh Hung (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-An Chiou (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shien-Fong Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an AI-assisted screening method and model that capable of automatically extracting prominent intrabeat dynamic patterns associated with HFpEF from apical 4-chamber (A4C) view images. The method comprises steps of: (a) segmenting the plurality of A4C view images to produce a plurality of segmented images; (b...