US Patent Issued to Agfa, VRVIS Zentrum fuVirtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH on Sept. 23 for "Method of augmenting the number of labeled images for training a neural network" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,967, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium) and VRVIS Zentrum fuVirtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH (Vienna).

"Method of augmenting the number of labeled images for training a neural network" was invented by Astrid Berg (Mortsel, Belgium), Eva Vandersmissen (Mortsel, Belgium) and Katja Buehler (Mortsel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of augmenting the number of labeled images for training a neural network comprising the steps of-Starting from a dataset of labeled images with corresponding segmentation masks and a dataset of unlabeled images, gathering for a given image i in a d...