ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,730, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BRAINLAB AG (Munich).
"Determining image similarity by analysing registrations" was invented by Stefan Vilsmeier (Munich) and Jens Schmaler (Mering, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are computer-implemented methods which encompass determining whether two medical images were taken of the same patient. In a first aspect, this is done by analysing a registration of the two images with one another. The registration may be a direct registration between the two images or an indirect registration, for example via an atlas to which each image is registered. In other aspects, a machine l...