US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Dec. 23 for "System for and method of deep learning diagnosis of plaque erosion through optical coherence tomography" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,150, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System for and method of deep learning diagnosis of plaque erosion through optical coherence tomography" was invented by Ik-Kyung Jang (Weston, Mass.), Jong Chul Ye (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sangjoon Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying plaque erosion in a vessel. The method includes: obtaining, using a processor, a sequence of images of the vessel; extracting, using the processor, one or more image features from the sequence of image...