US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 3 for "AI based lesion segmentation and detection for medical images" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,853, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"AI based lesion segmentation and detection for medical images" was invented by Yanbo Zhang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a medical imaging analysis task are provided. A pre-contrast medical image and a plurality of post-contrast medical images of an anatomical object of a patient are received. A mask of the anatomical object is generated based on at least one of 1) the pre-contrast medical image or 2) one or more of the plurality...