ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,324, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing discriminative, restorative, and adversarial (DiRA) learning for self-supervised medical image analysis" was invented by Fatemeh Haghighi (Tempe, Ariz.), Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher (Tempe, Ariz.) and Jianming Liang (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Discriminative, Restorative, and Adversarial (DiRA) learning framework for self-supervised medical image analysis is described. For instance, a pre-trained DiRA framework may be applied to dia...