US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 17 for "Labeling anatomical structures in medical imaging datasets" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,243, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Labeling anatomical structures in medical imaging datasets" was invented by Martin Kraus (Fuerth, Germany) and Mehmet Akif Gulsun (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples of the disclosure pertain to determining a label set for an anatomical structure such as a complex blood vessel, e.g., the coronary artery. The determining of the label set takes into account multiple inputs, such as the rule set of anatomical relationship between sub structures of the anatomical structure and a list of candidate labels and associated proba...