ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,192, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Early detection of pancreatic neoplasms using cascaded machine learning models" was invented by Alan Yuille (Baltimore) and Seyoun Park (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs for detecting pancreatic neoplasms. A method includes providing an image as an input to a first model, obtaining first output data generated by the first model based on the first model's processing of the image, the first output data representing a portion of the image that depicts a pancreas, providing the first ou...