US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 23 for "System and method for projection enhancement for synthetic 2D image generation" (Chinese, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,538, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for projection enhancement for synthetic 2D image generation" was invented by Sylvain Bernard (Montigny le Bretonneux, France), Dejun Wang (Beijing), Buer Qi (Beijing), Gopal B. Avinash (Concord, Calif.), Gireesha Rao (Pewaukee, Wis.) and Vincent Bismuth (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for enhancing the generation of a synthetic 2D image from tomosynthesis projection images, such as a synthetic 2D image. To enhance the image, the image processing system utilizes a selected height int...