US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 21 for "Automated spine health assessment using neural networks" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,731, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Automated spine health assessment using neural networks" was invented by Chamith Sudesh Rajapakse (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and Abhinav Suri (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes receiving a medical image of at least a portion of a spine in a patient. The method includes supplying the medical image to a neural network trained using training spine images and, for each training spine image, one or more spine measurement annotations. The method includes detecting, using the neural network, five or m...