US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 23 for "Comorbidity prediction from radiology images" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,328, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Comorbidity prediction from radiology images" was invented by Oluwasanmi Koyejo (Urbana, Ill.), Andrew Chen (Urbana, Ill.), Patrick Cole (Urbana, Ill.), Nasir Siddiqui (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Ayis Pyrros (Hinsdale, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to predict, based on chest radiographs, whether a patient suffers from any comorbidities in one or more high-level comorbidity classes, e.g., high-level hierarchical condition categories. The chest radiograph is a low-cost, minimally-invasive source of visual i...