US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 29 for "Technique for image-to-image task neural network pretraining" (German, Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,567, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for image-to-image task neural network pretraining" was invented by Dominik Neumann (Erlangen, Germany), Alexandru Constantin Serban (Constanta, Romania), Zhoubing Xu (Princeton, N.J.), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.) and Florin-Cristian Ghesu (Baiersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for pretraining a downstream neural network for a novel image-to-image task to be performed on medical imaging data received from a medical scanner is provided. A database of augmented training data sets is genera...