US Patent Issued to Taiwan Association for Integration of Cardiology and Surgery on Feb. 3 for "Cardiac catheterization image recognition and evaluation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,849, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Taiwan Association for Integration of Cardiology and Surgery (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Cardiac catheterization image recognition and evaluation method" was invented by Ting-Ying Chien (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hsiao-Huang Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cardiac catheterization image recognition and evaluation method is disclosed. The first deep learning algorithm is used to conduct an object recognition process on the cardiac catheterization image to obtain the vessel object image. The image processing process is conducted to the cardiac catheterization image to obtain the vessel loca...