US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center on Jan. 20 for "Deep-learning-based hepatic fat assessment" (Ohio, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,770, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland), Emory University (Atlanta) and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Cleveland).

"Deep-learning-based hepatic fat assessment" was invented by Gourav Modanwal (Cleveland), Sadeer Al-Kindi (Cleveland), Jonathan Walker (Cleveland), Rohan Dhamdhere (Atlanta), Sanjay Rajagopalan (Cleveland) and Anant Madabhushi (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method. The method includes accessing automatically segmented liver data and automatically segmented spleen data from a patient. The automatically segmented l...