US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 4 for "Deep learning Lyme disease diagnosis" (Maryland, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,071, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Deep learning Lyme disease diagnosis" was invented by Seth D. Billings (Pellston, Mich.), Philippe M. Burlina (Rockville, Md.), Neil J. Joshi (Laurel, Md.), John N. Aucott (Lutherville, Md.) and Elise Ng (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for diagnosing Lyme disease are presented. The techniques may include obtaining a digital photo of a skin lesion, providing the digital photo to a deep learning convolutional neural network, such that an output diagnosis is provided. The deep learning convolutional neural network may be trained using a...