US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 13 for "Large vessel occlusion detection and classification in medical imaging" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,774, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Large vessel occlusion detection and classification in medical imaging" was invented by Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.), Thomas Re (New York) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for occlusion detection in medical images are provided. An input medical image of one or more vessels in an anatomical object of a patient is received. One or more anatomical landmarks are identified in the input medical image. A first patch and one or more additional patches are extracted ...