US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Segmentation method for lipid droplet in pathological slice image" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,469, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Segmentation method for lipid droplet in pathological slice image" was invented by Pau-Choo Chung (Tainan, Taiwan), Hung-Wen Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Jyun-Sin Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Lin (Tainan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Sheng Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for segmenting lipid droplets that includes: inputting a pathological slice image into a machine learning model to output a region map and an boundary map, in which the region map includes multiple regional probability values, and the bou...