US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 29 for "Data augmentation for a machine learning method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,084, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Data augmentation for a machine learning method" was invented by Arne Ewald (Hamburg, Germany), Frank Michael Weber (Norderstedt, Germany), Irina Waechter-Stehle (Hamburg, Germany), Tobias Wissel (Lubeck, Germany), Matthias Lenga (Mainz, Germany) and Jochen Peters (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for creating/synthesizing realistic training data, for training a machine-learning model, using anatomical knowledge. An anatomical model can be obtained. Information from annotated training data entries (i.e. "ground t...