US Patent Issued to MedCognetics on March 4 for "Racially unbiased deep learning-based mammogram analyzer" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,232, issued on March 4, was assigned to MedCognetics Inc (Dallas).

"Racially unbiased deep learning-based mammogram analyzer" was invented by Timothy Cogan (McKinney, Texas), Richard Stubblefield (Diablo, Calif.) and Lakshman Tamil (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A racially unbiased mammogram analyzer includes an interface for receiving mammograms; a processor for extracting features of mammograms of general population; a processor for extracting features of mammograms of a specific race. In one embodiment, the general population mammogram features are represented by middle layers of a CNN and the race specific features ...