ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,688, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Data processing apparatus for training a model with abnormal medical image data to identify abnormal medical image data" was invented by Antanas Kascenas (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Alison O'Neil (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for training a model to identify abnormal medical/image data comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive medical/image data; obtain a local region and a context region from the medical/image data; generate abnormal medical/image data using the local region and/or the context...