US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on March 17 for "Method and system for compressing and reconstructing 3D medical images" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,697, issued on March 17, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Method and system for compressing and reconstructing 3D medical images" was invented by Sam Tak Wu Kwong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Xiangrui Liu (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Meng Wang (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 three-dimensional (3D) medical image. The method includes obtaining image data of a 3D medical image, performing a data conversion operation to convert the image data of the 3D medical image into video data of a sequence of frames each corresponding to a respecti...