US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 7 for "Incorporating clinical and economic objectives for medical AI deployment in clinical decision making" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,518, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Incorporating clinical and economic objectives for medical AI deployment in clinical decision making" was invented by Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Philipp Hoelzer (Tokyo) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI algorithm may be used in a clinical setting to perform one or more tasks to assist medical personnel. The results produced by the AI algorithm may affect not only patient care, but also the cost of the care. The AI algorithm may be trained on auxiliary data to incorporate the impacts on patient ...