US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 27 for "Method and facility for segmentation of high-contrast objects in X-ray images" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,667, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and facility for segmentation of high-contrast objects in X-ray images" was invented by Bernd Schreiber (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for segmentation of high-contrast objects in X-ray images includes receiving an X-ray projection image through an interface. The X-ray projection image includes a plurality of pixels. An image processing processor determines, for one or more pixels of the received X-ray projection image, whether the respective pixel is a shadow pixel representing a projection mapping of a high-con...