US Patent Issued to OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIALIZATION on Nov. 3 for "Image segmentation for size estimation and machine learning-based modeling for predicting rates of size changes over time" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,222, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIALIZATION INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Image segmentation for size estimation and machine learning-based modeling for predicting rates of size changes over time" was invented by Akshay Vashist (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hossain Saboonchi (Princeton, N.J.) and Jong-Hoon Ahn (Randolph, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may access a source image of the subject. A system may execute an image segmentation model that uses the source image to distinguish the target object from among other objects in the source image. A system may generate a binary image...