US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 10 for "Quantification of body composition using contrastive learning in CT images" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,163, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Quantification of body composition using contrastive learning in CT images" was invented by Lena Philipp (Achim, Germany), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Bernhard Geiger (Cranbury, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Abishek Balachandran (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for quantification of body composition using contrastive learning in computed tomography (CT) data. A segmentation model is provided that is trained using two stages. An encoder of the segmentation model is pretrained using unlabeled da...