US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 3 for "Method and apparatus for segmenting a medical text report into sections" (Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,687, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for segmenting a medical text report into sections" was invented by Shaika Chowdhury (Chicago), Halid Yerebakan (Carmel, Ind.) and Yoshihisa Shinagawa (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for segmenting a medical text report into sections is disclosed. For each sentence of the report, a first sentence representation is determined by inputting a word-level context representation for each sentence sequentially into a neural network. A second sentence representation is determined by inputting an aggregated re...