US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Dec. 16 for "Processing 2-D projection images using a neural network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,549, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Processing 2-D projection images using a neural network" was invented by Sailesh Conjeti (Erlangen, Germany) and Alexander Preuhs (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to infer 2-D segmentations of a region of interest using a neural network algorithm. Techniques are described to train the neural network algorithm. The 2-D segmentations are determined based on multiple 2-D projection images. For example, x-ray images can be used as an input."

The patent was filed on March 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/699,...