ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,948, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Sensitivity analysis for digital pathology" was invented by Marinus Bastiaan Van Leeuwen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Reinhold Wimberger-Friedl (Waalrenl, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ability to obtain and digitise pathology samples (such as in histopathology or cytopathology) has opened up the possibility of accurate and automated computer operated analysis, or computer-assisted analysis, when diagnosing a wide range of medical conditions. A typical digital pathology image analysis pipeline involves a large number of image pre-p...