ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,152, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Henan, China).

"Intelligent grading method and system for pulmonary nodules based on multi-modal feature fusion" was invented by Huiqin Jiang (Henan, China) and Ling Ma (Henan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an intelligent grading method and system for pulmonary nodules based on multi-modal feature fusion, including: obtaining ROI and VOI of pulmonary nodules based on chest CT examination images and examination reports by utilizing clinical multi-modal data from physical examination population, designing a multi-task feature extraction network based on at...