US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Dec. 30 for "Computer-implemented method for determining scar segmentation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,754, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for determining scar segmentation" was invented by Marc Vornehm (Erlangen, Germany), Daniel Giese (Erlangen, Germany), Jens Wetzl (Erlangen, Germany) and Elisabeth Preuhs (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining scar segmentation includes receiving a medical image of an object to be segmented acquired after an application of a low-dose of contrast agent and determining a scar segmentation mask by applying a trained artificial neural network to the medical image. The ...