US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 25 for "Classification of dynamically contrast-enhanced medical image data of a liver" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,367, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Classification of dynamically contrast-enhanced medical image data of a liver" was invented by Robert Grimm (Nuremberg, Germany) and Cornelius Jacob (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying medical image data using a classification algorithm configured to make an image-based correlation between an image data set and a phase of a plurality of defined phases relative to a time of administration of a contrast agent with additional plausibility checking. The image data may include at least three image data sets in each...