US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Dec. 2 for "Machine learning prediction of dose volume histogram shapes" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,292, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Machine learning prediction of dose volume histogram shapes" was invented by Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Hakala (Rajamaki, Finland), Maria Isabel Cordero-Marcos (Espoo, Finland), Elena Czeizler (Helsinki), Shahab Basiri (Siuntio, Finland) and Hannu Laaksonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit accesses a plurality of information items that each correspond to a resultant dose volume histogram shape for a corresponding different radiation treatment plan. The control circuit then trains a machine ...