US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on March 17 for "Computer-implemented method for providing a de-identified medical image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,714, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for providing a de-identified medical image" was invented by Andreas Fieselmann (Erlangen, Germany), Steffen Kappler (Effeltrich, Germany), Christian Huemmer (Lichtenfels, Germany) and Ramyar Biniazan (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving input data including a medical image and an in-image annotation; applying a first function to the input data to determine a relevance value of pixels in the image and a relevance map; applying a second function to the m...