US Patent Issued to TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL on Oct. 28 for "Method for interpreting kidney ultrasound images with artificial intelligence" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,286, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Method for interpreting kidney ultrasound images with artificial intelligence" was invented by Lin-Shien Fu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yueh-Chuan Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for interpreting kidney ultrasound images with artificial intelligence includes: using a deep-learning method on abnormal and non-anomalous kidney ultrasound images obtained from classification by experienced nephrological experts and via image pre-processing to obtain prediction modules, and upon or after obtaining the prediction module...