US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 30 for "Robust shape determination for cardiac anatomy in medical imaging" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,762, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Robust shape determination for cardiac anatomy in medical imaging" was invented by Tiziano Passerini (Plainsboro, N.J.), Edmond Astolfi (Paris), Indraneel Borgohain (East Windsor, N.J.) and Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For shape determination of cardiac anatomy with a medical imager, irregularities in motion, poor image quality, and misalignment of imaging planes are counteracted by a process relying on alignment of contours in combination with selection and fitting of a motion model. Contours are extract...