US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Oct. 20 for "Deep learning for registering anatomical to functional images" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,309, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Deep learning for registering anatomical to functional images" was invented by Joshua Schaefferkoetter (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for registering anatomical to functional images using deep learning. In accordance with one aspect, the framework extracts features by applying an anatomical image and a corresponding functional image as input to a first trained convolutional neural network. A deformation field is estimated by applying the extracted features as input to a second trained convolutional neural network....