ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,744, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 2438799 ALBERTA LTD. (Calgary, Canada).
"Classification and improvement of quality of vascular images" was invented by Benjamin R. Lavoie (Calgary, Canada), Rangaraj M. Rangayyan (Calgary, Canada) and Faraz Oloumi (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to computer-implemented methods for classification of the quality of a vascular image comprising determining of a local spatial orientation and frequency variation, variation in brightness, global contrast, and vessel contrast. Provided are methods for correction of the quality of a vascular image, for classificatio...