MUMBAI, India, Jan. 3 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511102888 A) filed by Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, on Oct. 25, 2025, for 'system for multiclass classification of lung diseases from chest x-ray (cxr) images.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Kulwinder Singh; Meghna Gupta; Dr. Suresh Mani; and Gazal Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on Dec. 12, under issue no. 50/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system for multiclass classification of lung diseases from chest X-ray (CXR) images comprises the image acquisition module 101, configured to receive CXR data from medical imaging devices, the lung segmentation unit using the improved U-Net network with adaptive attention to isolate lung regions and remove non-pulmonary background, the classification engine incorporating the inception-based transfer learning model 103 trained to classify diseases including COVID-19, pneumonia, and tuberculosis, the explainable artificial intelligence module 104 with Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanation and Grad-CAM components to visualize key regions, the output interface 105 presenting results with interpretability visualizations, and the data logging unit 106 storing interpretability data and confidence scores for clinical decision support."

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