US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 1 for "System and method for differentiating a tissue of interest from another part of a medical scanner image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,265, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"System and method for differentiating a tissue of interest from another part of a medical scanner image" was invented by Manasi Datar (Erfurt, Germany), Martin Kraus (Fuerth, Germany), Jan Kretschmer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Ramyar Biniazan (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments provides a system and a method for differentiating a tissue of interest from another part of a medical scanner image, in particular pectoral muscle tissue from breast tissue in an X-ray mammography image. The method comprises prov...