ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,839, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).
"Method and system for labeling medical images" was invented by Virginia Boyce Hill (Chicago), Michael Alexander Iorga (Chicago), Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Chicago) and Todd B. Parrish (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically labeling massive quantities of image report data includes a memory configured to store image data and metadata corresponding to the image data. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to apply a natural language processing algorithm to identify one or more charac...