ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,733, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for the evaluation of medical image data" was invented by Christian Huemmer (Lichtenfels, Germany), Sailesh Conjeti (Erlangen, Germany), Alexander Preuhs (Erlangen, Germany) and Lei Wang (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluation of medical image data comprises: providing medical image data of a patient to be examined; determining, for at least one segment of the medical image data, a respective classification probability value with respect to at least one classification from a list of specified c...