US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Sept. 8 for "Machine learning system and method for predicting Alzheimer's disease based on retinal fundus images" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,388, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Machine learning system and method for predicting Alzheimer's disease based on retinal fundus images" was invented by Ruogu Fang (Gainesville, Fla.) and Jianqiao Tian (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning system and method are disclosed that enable full automation of the process of analyzing retinal fundus images to predict Alzheimer's disease, thereby obviating the need for manual labeling of retinal features while also improving prediction accuracy. A machine learning system and method are disc...