US Patent Issued to Hologic on Oct. 21 for "System and method for hierarchical multi-level feature image synthesis and representation" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,842, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System and method for hierarchical multi-level feature image synthesis and representation" was invented by Haili Chui (Fremont, Calif.), Liyang Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Ge (Cupertino, Calif.), Xiangwei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Nikolaos Gkanatsios (Newtown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing breast tissue image data includes processing the image data to generate a set of image slices collectively depicting the patient's breast; for each image slice, applying one or more filters associated with a plurality of multi-level feature ...