Merck Sharp + Dohme Corp.

Msd International Gmbh

Ilknur Icke

Belma Dogdas

Charles A Lesburg

Antong Chen

Dongqing Zhang

Sarayu Parimal

Soheil Ghafurian

Approaches for the automatic segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) images. Machine learning models segment images to identify image features in consecutive frames at different levels of resolution. A neural network block is applied to groups of MR images to produce primary feature maps at two or more levels of resolution. The images in a given group of MR images may correspond to a cycle and have a temporal order. A second RNN block is applied to the primary feature maps to produce two or more output tensors at corresponding levels of resolution. A segmentation block is applied to the two or more output tensors to produce a probability map for the MR images. The first neural network block may be a convolutional neural network (CNN) block. The second neural network block may be a convolutional long short-term (LSTM) block.

Multi-level convolutional LSTM model for the segmentation of MR images

A protein crystallization trial is automatically analyzed by capturing images of the protein drops in the trial. A machine-learned model, such as a neural network, is applied to classify the images. The model generates a predicted classification from among a set of possible classifications which includes one or more crystal type classifications and one or more non-crystal type classifications. Users may be notified automatically of newly identified crystals (e.g., drops that are classified as a crystal type). The notification may include a link to a user interface that includes results of the trial.

Automatic protein crystallization trial analysis system

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