ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,882, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Method for detection and characterization of lesions" was invented by Manasi Datar (Erfurt, Germany) and Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detection and characterization of lesions includes acquiring a plurality of phase images of a multi-phase imaging exam, extracting a local context for each phase image of the plurality of phase images, encoding the local contexts to create phase specific feature maps, combining the phase-specific feature maps to create unified feature maps, and at least one of ...