US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Sept. 8 for "Multi-modality neural network for Alzheimer's disease classification" (Tennessee, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,690, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Multi-modality neural network for Alzheimer's disease classification" was invented by Rishabh Sharma (Houston), Ludovic Sibille (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Rachid Fahmi (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network (16) operating on volume data and using convolutional layers (24) may better classify conversion or Alzheimer's disease. The neural network (16) may be trained to operate on incomplete data. The neural network (16) may have a branching architecture (30-34) for more accurate classification given a variety of types of a...