US Patent Issued to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL on Feb. 18 for "Multimodal fusion for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic response prediction" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,399, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston).

"Multimodal fusion for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic response prediction" was invented by Faisal Mahmood (Brookline, Mass.) and Richard Chen (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can quantify the tumor microenvironment for diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic response prediction by fusing different data types (e.g., morphological information from histology and molecular information from omics) using an algorithm that harnesses deep learning. The algorithm employs tensor fusion to provide end-to-end multimoda...