US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Dec. 30 for "Artifact segmentation and/or uniformity assessment of a gamma camera" (American, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,744, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Artifact segmentation and/or uniformity assessment of a gamma camera" was invented by Saurav Daga (Bangalore, India), Sinjoy Saha (Kolkata, Germany), Timothy E. Crawford (Roselle, Ill.), Kausar Khan (Bartlett, Ill.) and Brian Morris (Maryville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For assessment of a gamma camera, segmentation of a flood image provides location and size information, providing information for different types of artifacts. A machine-learned model generates an assessment based on input features of the flood image and/or segmentat...