US Patent Issued to OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS on March 31 for "Histological image analysis" (Norwegian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,973, issued on March 31, was assigned to OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS (Norway).

"Histological image analysis" was invented by Ole Johan Skrede (Oslo, Norway), Tarjei Sveinsgjerd Hveem (Oslo, Norway), John Robert Maddison (Crowborough, Great Britain), Havard Emil Greger Danielsen (Oslo, Norway) and Knut Liestol (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning algorithm is trained on a number of microscopic images and a measure of outcome of each image. Each image is divided into tiles. The measure of outcome is assigned to each tile of the image. The tiles are then used to train the machine learning algorithm. The trained ...