ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,129, issued on April 7, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City, Taiwan).
"Method for analyzing immunohistochemistry images" was invented by Pau-Choo Chung (Tainan City, Taiwan), Hung-Wen Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan), Shao-Kai Liao (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Sheng Cheng (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing an immunohistochemistry (IHC) image is provided and includes: segmenting nuclei from the IHC image according to a machine learning model; removing pixels belonging to the nuclei and pixels in a color range from the IHC image to obtain multiple cytoplasmic pixels; assign...