ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,235, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hamid Reza Tizhoosh (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for automatically diagnosing X-ray images" was invented by Hamid Reza Tizhoosh (Rochester, Minn.) and Ho Yin Sze-To (Tuen Mun, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable mediums for diagnosing a query X-ray image are disclosed. Example embodiments relate to operating the system to apply an artificial neural network model to the query X-ray image to extract a query feature vector representative of image characteristics of the query X-ray image; compare the query feature vecto...