US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 18 for "System and methods for augmenting X-ray images for training of deep neural networks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,677, issued on March 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and methods for augmenting X-ray images for training of deep neural networks" was invented by Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Ashish Sattyavrat Panse (Burlington, Mass.), Sean Kyne (Brookline, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.) and Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training data modification system (TDM) for machine learning and related methods. The system comprises a data modifier (DM) configured to perform a modification operation to modify medical training X-ray imagery of a pati...