ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,558, issued on March 25, was assigned to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"Deep multi-magnification networks for multi-class image segmentation" was invented by Thomas Fuchs (New York) and David Joon Ho (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are Deep Multi-Magnification Networks (DMMNs). The multi-class tissue segmentation architecture processes a set of patches from multiple magnifications to make more accurate predictions. For the supervised training, partial annotations may be used to reduce the burden of annotators. The segmentation architecture with multi-encoder, multi-decoder, and multi-co...