US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Generative adversarial network medical image generation for training of a classifier" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,294, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generative adversarial network medical image generation for training of a classifier" was invented by Ali Madani (Oakland, Calif.), Mehdi Moradi (San Jose, Calif.) and Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided to implement a machine learning training model. The machine learning training model trains an image generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate medical images approximating actual medical images. The machine learning training model augments a set of trainin...