US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 19 for "Late gadolinium enhancement analysis for magnetic resonance imaging" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,827, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Late gadolinium enhancement analysis for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Teodora Marina Chitiboi (Hamburg, Germany), Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Athira Jane Jacob (Plainsboro, N.J.), Ingmar Voigt (Erlangen, Germany) and Mehmet Akif Gulsun (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For training for and performance of LGE analysis, multi-task machine-learning model is trained to output various cardiac tissue characteristics based on input of LGE MR data. The use of segmentation may be avoided or limited, resulting in a ...