ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,072, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to IHEALTHSCREEN INC. (Queens Village, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for automated hypertensive retinopathy (HTNR) detection" was invented by Alauddin Bhuiyan (Queens Village, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hypertensive retinopathy (HTNR) detection includes a processor and a memory, including instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the system to: preprocess a retinal image using contrast enhancement, noise reduction and/or resolution normalization; segment a plurality of vessels from the preprocessed retinal image to generate a vessel segmentation m...