US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 1 for "Improving model performance by artificial blending of healthy tissue" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,098, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Improving model performance by artificial blending of healthy tissue" was invented by Yoel Shoshan (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Ratner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving machine learning algorithm performance is described. The method may comprise receiving a first constituent image of human tissue; receiving a second constituent image of human tissue; overlapping a portion of the second constituent image on a portion of the first constituent image to create an augmented image; and training a model using a data...