US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 3 for "Methods and apparatus for medical image reconstruction using machine learning based processes" (Tennessee, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,183, issued on March 3, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus for medical image reconstruction using machine learning based processes" was invented by Lauren Partin (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vijay Shah (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Sven Zuehlsdorff (Oak Brook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning based systems and methods for improving attenuation and scatter correction and for estimating organ volume in medical images are disclosed. In some embodiments, a co-modality image, a non-attenuated corrected nuclear image, and an x-ray image are received. A first machine learning proces...