US Patent Issued to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Dec. 30 for "Detection of annotated regions of interest in images" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,861, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"Detection of annotated regions of interest in images" was invented by Thomas Fuchs (New York), Peter J. Schuffler (New York), Dig Vijay Kumar Yarlagadda (New York) and Chad Vanderbilt (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for identifying regions of interest (ROIs) in images. A computing system may identify an image including an annotation defining an ROI. The image may have a plurality of pixels in a first color space. The computing system may convert the plurality of pixels from the...