US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 2 for "Machine learning data augmentation using diffusion-based generative models" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,339, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Machine learning data augmentation using diffusion-based generative models" was invented by Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Boris Mailhe (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating augmented images are provided. One or more input medical images are received. At least one of noise and one or more transformations are applied to the one or more input medical images to generate one or more noisy augmented images. The one or more noisy augmented images are denoised using a diffusion-based denoising system to gen...