US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 25 for "Compensation of organ deformation for medical image registration" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,551, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Compensation of organ deformation for medical image registration" was invented by Julian Krebs (Moers, Germany) and Sebastien Piat (Lawrence Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for medical image registration are provided. A first input medical image and a second input medical image of one or more anatomical objects are received. For each respective anatomical object of the one or more anatomical objects, a region of interest comprising the respective anatomical object is detected in one of the first input medical ima...