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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2024
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Dominik Neumann, Erlangen, DE;
Alexandru Constantin Serban, Constanta, RO;
Zhoubing Xu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Bogdan Georgescu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Florin-Cristian Ghesu, Baiersdorf, DE;
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
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 generated based on a database of pre-existing training data sets. A set of at least two pretext neural network subsystems are jointly trained for performing (in particular partly self-supervised and partly weakly supervised) pretext tasks using the generated database. The downstream neural network is pretrained for the novel image-to-image task to be performed on medical imaging data received from a medical scanner. The pretraining is based on a subset of the modified weights of the pretext neural network subsystems, and/or on an output of a subset of layers of the set of pretext neural network subsystems.