US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 1 for "AI-based medical imaging analysis of photon counting data" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,576, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"AI-based medical imaging analysis of photon counting data" was invented by Mehmet Akif Gulsun (Princeton, N.J.), Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Max Schobinger (Hirschaid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a medical imaging analysis task from PCCT (photon counting computed tomography) imaging data are provided. PCCT imaging data acquired from a PCCT imaging device is received. A plurality of PCCT virtual images is generated from the PCCT imaging data. A plurality of medical imaging analysis sub-t...