US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Feb. 10 for "Multistream fusion encoder for prostate lesion segmentation and classification" (Chinese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,149, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Multistream fusion encoder for prostate lesion segmentation and classification" was invented by Bernard Chi Yuen Chiu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Carmen C.M. Cho (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Baohua Yuan (Taizhou, China) and Mingjie Jiang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a flexible, light-weighted and efficient multistream fusion encoder which can be easily integrated into multistream convolutional neural networks to perform segmentation and classification tasks on MRI images registered with different...