Patent ID: 11861835
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus comprising:
means for receiving 1) a first input medical image of a patient depicting an abnormality at a first time and 2) a second input medical image of the patient depicting the abnormality at a second time;
means for registering the second input medical image with the first input medical image;
means for segmenting the abnormality from a) the first input medical image to generate a first segmentation map and b) the registered second input medical image to generate a second segmentation map;
means for combining the first segmentation map and the second segmentation map to generate a combined map;
means for extracting features from the first input medical image and the registered second input medical image based on regions in which the abnormality is located, wherein the regions are identified by the combined map;
means for assessing expansion of the abnormality based on the extracted features using a trained machine learning based network; and
means for outputting results of the assessment.