US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Automated medical image and segmentation quality assessment for machine learning tasks" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,406, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated medical image and segmentation quality assessment for machine learning tasks" was invented by Yi-Qing Wang (Paris) and Giovanni John Jacques Palma (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for identifying inconsistencies between volumes of medical images are provided. A plurality of volumes of medical images are received, each having a plurality of medical images of an anatomical structure. A plurality of first representation data structures are generated, each corresponding to a volume and having dimens...