US Patent Issued on Jan. 28 for "Multistage region-of-interest identification in medical images" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,206, issued on Jan. 28.

"Multistage region-of-interest identification in medical images" was invented by Steven Frank (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First and second predictors are used to identify regions of interest in a medical image. The first predictor is configured to maximize precision in identifying one or more abnormalities that it was trained to recognize, or at least to have greater precision than the second predictor. The second predictor is configured or selected to maximize sensitivity (i.e., recall) in identifying one or more abnormalities that it was trained to recognize, or at least to have greater...