US Patent Issued to Emory University on April 22 for "Systems and methods for generating biomarkers based on multivariate MRI and multimodality classifiers for disorder diagnosis" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,856, issued on April 22, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for generating biomarkers based on multivariate MRI and multimodality classifiers for disorder diagnosis" was invented by Daniel Huddleston (Marietta, Ga.) and Babak Mahmoudi (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the systems and methods of the disclosure can efficiently and accurately classify neurodegenerative disorder(s) and/or movement disorder(s) of a subject (e.g., a patient) using at least quantitative features associated with one or more regions of interest determined from one or more sets of image data of th...