US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 28 for "Representation learning for organs at risk and gross tumor volumes for treatment response prediction" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,196, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Representation learning for organs at risk and gross tumor volumes for treatment response prediction" was invented by Bin Lou (Princeton, N.J.), Zhoubing Xu (Plainsboro, N.J.), Ali Kamen (Skillman, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For prediction of response of radiation therapy, radiomics are used for unsupervised machine training of an encoder-decoder network to predict based on input of image data, such as computed tomography image data and from segmentation. The trained enco...