ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,235, issued on March 3, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Visual explanation of classification" was invented by Ludovic Sibille (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for visual explanation of classification. The framework trains (204) a generative model to generate new images that resemble input images but are classified by the classifier as belonging to one or more alternate classes. At least one explanation mask may then be generated (206) by performing optimization based on a current input image and a new image generated by the trained generative model from the current input...