US Patent Issued to The University of Hong Kong on Aug. 26 for "Lumbar spine anatomical annotation based on magnetic resonance images using artificial intelligence" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,325, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Lumbar spine anatomical annotation based on magnetic resonance images using artificial intelligence" was invented by Xihe Kuang (Hong Kong), Jason Py Cheung (Hong Kong) and Teng Zhang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automated comprehensive assessment of clinical lumbar MRIs includes a MRI standardization component that reads MRI data from raw lumbar MRI files, uses an artificial intelligence (AI) model to convert the raw MRI data into a standardized format. A core assessment component automatically generates MRI assessment results...