US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 16 for "OCR-based extraction of clinical data from DICOM SC images" (New Jersey, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,944, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"OCR-based extraction of clinical data from DICOM SC images" was invented by Poikavila Ullaskrishnan (Lebanon, N.H.) and Ren-Yi Lo (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of facilitating processing of at least one DICOM SC image-e.g., using a PC or workstation in a hospital or an institution-to automatically extract clinical data therein are provided. Characters associated with the clinical data are extracted from the at least one DICOM SC image based on configuration information associated with the at least one DICOM SC image, w...