US Patent Issued to CANON on July 7 for "Adaptive ultrasound deep convolution neural network denoising using noise characteristic information" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,229, issued on July 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Adaptive ultrasound deep convolution neural network denoising using noise characteristic information" was invented by Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ting Xia (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Zhou Yu (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Tomohisa Imamura (Otawara, Japan), Ryosuke Iwasaki (Otawara, Japan) and Hiroki Takahashi (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system enable to-be-processed medical image data and its corresponding noise characteristic information to be normalized to resemble noise characteristic information of training data us...