ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,755, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Method and apparatus for image enhancement of radiographic images" was invented by Joris Soons (Mortsel, Belgium) and Pieter Vuylsteke (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing method for enhancing the image quality of an image, more particularly a digital medical grey scale image, that comprises the steps of a) decomposing an original image into multiple detail images at different resolution levels and/or orientations, b) processing the detail images to obtain processed detail images, c) computing a result image by applying a reconstruction algo...