US Patent Issued to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 11 for "Non-tumor segmentation to support tumor detection and analysis" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,128, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Non-tumor segmentation to support tumor detection and analysis" was invented by Auranuch Lorsakul (Tucson, Ariz.), Kien Nguyen (Tucson, Ariz.) and Zuo Zhao (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates machine learning techniques for segmenting non-tumor regions in specimen images to support tumor detection and analysis. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to accessing one or more images that comprise a non-target region (e.g., a non-tumor region) and a target region (e.g., a tumor region), pr...