US Patent Issued to University of Louisville Research Foundation on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for digital transformation of medical images and fibrosis detection" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,901, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Systems and methods for digital transformation of medical images and fibrosis detection" was invented by Ayman S. El-Baz (Louisville, Ky.), Dibson Gondim (Louisville, Ky.), Ahmed Naglah (Louisville, Ky.) and Fahmi Khalifa (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel system and method for accurate detection and quantification of fibrous tissue produces a virtual medical image of tissue treated with a second stain based on a received medical image of tissue treated with a first stain using a computer-implemented tr...