US Patent Issued to TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL on Dec. 16 for "System and method for automatic diagnosis of middle ear diseases from an otoscopic image" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,018, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL (Taipei, Taiwan).

"System and method for automatic diagnosis of middle ear diseases from an otoscopic image" was invented by Yuan-Chia Chu (Taipei, Taiwan), Yen-Fu Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Huei Liao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Chi Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to a method for diagnosing a middle ear disease comprising receiving one or more otoscopic image of a subject, pre-processing the one or more otoscopic image to obtain image data, inputting the image data to a trained network model, generating, using th...