US Patent Issued to Oregon Health & Science University on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for generating biomarker activation maps" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,029, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for generating biomarker activation maps" was invented by Yali Jia (Portland, Ore.) and Pengxiao Zang (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating biomarker activation maps (BAMs) are described. An example method includes identifying a medical image depicting at least a portion of a subject; generating a BAM by inputting the medical image into a trained, U-shaped neural network (NN); and outputting the BAM overlaying the medical image, the BAM indicating at least one biomarker depicted...