US Patent Issued to Washington University on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for producing a brain lesion functional MRI biomarker, predicting patient prognosis, and treatment planning" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,997, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for producing a brain lesion functional MRI biomarker, predicting patient prognosis, and treatment planning" was invented by Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis) and Andy Daniel (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomarker predictive of a survival outcome of a brain tumor patient is disclosed. The biomarker includes a functional connectivity matrix that includes a plurality of matrix elements. Each matrix element includes a correlation of resting-state fMRI activities of a first and second region of interest from a plurality of regions of i...