US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on May 12 for "Automated image segmentation system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,366, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).

"Automated image segmentation system and method" was invented by Jing Qin (Hong Kong) and Youyi Song (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a learning network to perform image segmentation includes receiving training data from a trusted source and an alternative source; assigning weights to data in the second corpus; dividing the data into batches with samples from the first and second corpuses; and completing training epochs by, for each batch: generating an output for each sample; determining a loss by comparing the gener...