ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,211, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Semi-supervised learning using co-training of radiology report and medical images" was invented by Xin Wang (Belmont, Mass.) and Prescott Peter Klassen (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) of training a machine-learned (ML) image classifier (14) to classify images (30) respective to a set of labels includes: generating image-based labels for the images from the set of labels and image-based label confidence values for the image-based labels by applying the ML image classifier to the images; generating report-based la...