US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 11 for "Method of generating a trained model that transforms forward-projected X-ray CT image data into raw projection data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,738, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method of generating a trained model that transforms forward-projected X-ray CT image data into raw projection data" was invented by Hiroki Taguchi (Otawara, Japan) and Yohei Minatoya (Bunkyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information processing method according to an embodiment includes: acquiring an X-ray CT image (I1) and spectral information on imaging of the X-ray CT image (I1); acquiring sets of distribution data (D11, D12, and D13) on substances in the X-ray CT image by performing segmentation of the X-ray CT image (I1) according to substance; acquir...