US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 1 for "Classifying a lesion based on longitudinal studies" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,258, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Classifying a lesion based on longitudinal studies" was invented by Siqi Liu (Princeton, N.J.), Yuemeng Li (Philadelphia), Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso (Nuremberg, Germany), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.), Ziming Qiu (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Zhengyang Shen (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is for classifying a lesion. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving a first medical image of an examination volume, the first medical image corresponding to a first examination time; ...