US Patent Issued to Veran Medical Technologies on July 15 for "Rapid on-site evaluation using artificial intelligence for lung cytopathology" (Colorado, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,545, issued on July 15, was assigned to Veran Medical Technologies Inc. (St. Louis).

"Rapid on-site evaluation using artificial intelligence for lung cytopathology" was invented by Jayson Oldfather (Golden, Colo.), Mark Hunter (St. Louis), Troy L. Holsing (Golden, Colo.) and Torsten M. Lyon (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented for applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to aid in rapid on-site evaluation cytopathology. Image data are acquired from a biopsy slide. Areas of interest are determined using a first CNN. The image data is segmented into image tiles, and tiles showing the area...