US Patent Issued to Provincial Health Services Authority on May 19 for "Sequential convolutional neural networks for nuclei segmentation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,964, issued on May 19, was assigned to Provincial Health Services Authority (Vancouver, Canada).

"Sequential convolutional neural networks for nuclei segmentation" was invented by Calum Macaulay (Vancouver, Canada) and Paul Gallagher (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for segmenting cell nuclei in medical images apply first and second trained machine learning algorithms. The first trained machine learning algorithm processes a medical image to provide center locations of cell nuclei depicted in the image. The second machine learning algorithm processes each of a plurality of patches of the image. E...