US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on July 8 for "Method for providing medical imaging decision support data and method for providing ground truth in 2D image space" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,260, issued on July 8, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for providing medical imaging decision support data and method for providing ground truth in 2D image space" was invented by Michael Suehling (Erlangen, Germany), Felix Durlak (Hemhofen, Germany) and Rainer Kaergel (Stegaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates in one aspect to a computer-implemented method includes receiving 2D topogram data of a patient; generating 2D topogram annotation data by applying a machine learning algorithm for topogram analysis onto the 2D topogr...