US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 10 for "Fully automated assessment of coronary vulnerable plaque in coronary CT images using radiomic features" (New Jersey, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,349, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Fully automated assessment of coronary vulnerable plaque in coronary CT images using radiomic features" was invented by Pranjal Vaidya (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Mehmet Akif Gulsun (Princeton, N.J.) and Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic assessment of a lesion are provided. One or more input medical images of a vessel of a patient is received. A lesion is defined in the one or more input medical images. A region of interest around the lesion is defined in the one or more input med...