US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 20 for "Disease-specific longitudinal change analysis in medical imaging" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,253, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Disease-specific longitudinal change analysis in medical imaging" was invented by Long Xie (Chesterbrook, Pa.), Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Gengyan Zhao (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for longitudinal change analysis are provided. A first medical image depicting an anatomical object at a first time and a second medical image depicting the anatomical object at a second time are received. The first medical image is encoded into a first set of features and the second medical image is encoded into a second se...