US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on March 17 for "Methods and systems for identifying slices in medical image data sets" (Pennsylvania, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,648, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Methods and systems for identifying slices in medical image data sets" was invented by Yoshihisa Shinagawa (Downingtown, Pa.), Halid Yerebakan (Carmel, Ind.), Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez (West Chester, Pa.), Mahesh Ranganath (Malvern, Pa.) and Simon Allen-Raffl (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying corresponding slices in medical image data sets are provided. For example, the systems and methods are based on identifying corresponding slices by systematically quantifying image sim...