US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Nov. 4 for "Patient-specific auto-segmentation in online adaptive radiotherapy" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,391, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Patient-specific auto-segmentation in online adaptive radiotherapy" was invented by Simeng Zhu (Troy, Mich.) and Supratik Bose (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for adaptively training machine learning models for auto-segmentation of medical images. A system executes a segmentation model that receives a medical image as input and generates an initial segmentation of the medical image for a radiotherapy treatment. The system identifies a corrected segmentation corresponding t...