US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on May 13 for "Automated tumor identification and segmentation with medical images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,890, issued on May 13, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated tumor identification and segmentation with medical images" was invented by Nils Gustav Thomas Bengtsson (South San Francisco, Calif.), Richard Alan Duray Carano (South San Francisco, Calif.), Alexander James Stephen Champion De Crespigny (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jill Osborn Fredrickson (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Mohamed Skander Jemaa (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical image(s) are input into a detection network to generate mask(s) identifying a set of regions within the medical image(s), where ...