US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 17 for "Regression-based approach for measurement of rotator cuff tears in shoulder MRI images" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,230, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Regression-based approach for measurement of rotator cuff tears in shoulder MRI images" was invented by Jianing Wang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Michael Schwier (Hamburg, Germany), Bernhard Geiger (Cranbury, N.J.) and Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for calculating a distance between a first point and a second point of an anatomical landmark are provided. An input medical image of an anatomical landmark of a patient is received. One or more probability maps predicting a first point and a second point of the a...