ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,332, issued on June 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Self-supervised learning for modeling a 3D brain anatomical representation" was invented by Youngjin Yoo (Princeton, N.J.), Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.), Gengyan Zhao (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a medical imaging analysis task are provided. A plurality of 3D (three dimensional) patches extracted from a 3D input medical image is received. A set of local features is extracted from each of the plurality of 3D patches using a machine learning based local featu...