US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 3 for "Editing presegmented images and volumes using deep learning" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,150, issued on March 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Editing presegmented images and volumes using deep learning" was invented by Noha El-Zehiry (Plainsboro, N.J.), Gareth Funka-Lea (Princeton, N.J.), Athira Jane Jacob (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Paul Klein (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating an updated segmentation of an initial segmentation are provided. An initial segmentation of an anatomical object from an input medical image is received. User input modifying the initial segmentation is received. An updated segmentation of the anatomical object in the in...