US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on April 7 for "System and method for compressing and/or reconstructing medical image" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,507, issued on April 7, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"System and method for compressing and/or reconstructing medical image" was invented by Sam Tak Wu Kwong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Xiangrui Liu (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Shiqi Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing a 3D medical image includes the steps of receiving a 3D medical image, partitioning the 3D medical image into a plurality of first slices, encoding the plurality of the first slices by a lossy codec into first bitstreams, decoding the first bitstreams by the lossy codec to obtain a plurality of se...