ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,730, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte, Calif.).

"Multimodal analysis of imaging and clinical data for personalized therapy" was invented by Bin Lou (Princeton, N.J.), Ali Kamen (Skillman, N.J.) and Ammar Chaudhry (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting clinical outcomes of a patient are provided. An input medical image of a tumor of a patient is received. The tumor is segmented from the input medical image. One or more assessments of the tumor are performed based on the segmentation. A clinica...