US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Dartmouth College on June 24 for "System and method for attention-based classification of high-resolution microscopy images" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,506, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"System and method for attention-based classification of high-resolution microscopy images" was invented by Saeed Hassanpour (Hanover, N.H.) and Naofumi Tomita (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a system and method for analyzing and classifying imaged from whole slides of tissue. A source of image data transmits images of the tissue on the whole slides to a GPU. The GPU performs a feature extraction process that identifies and segments regions of interests in each of the images, and an attention network that, ...