ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,991, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mint Labs Inc. (Duxbury, Mass.).

"Learning classifier for brain imaging modality recognition" was invented by Irina Sanchez (Barcelona, Spain), Matthew Rowe (Barcelona, Spain) and Santiago Puch Giner (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for training a model for identifying an imaging modality. The systems and methods can be performed by a computer system having one or more processors and memory. A plurality of image vectors can be generated from first image data using a convolutional neural network. A loss function can be applied to each of the plurality of ima...