US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on June 30 for "Reducing noise in CT images using synthetic data" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,556, issued on June 30, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Reducing noise in CT images using synthetic data" was invented by Brian E. Nett (Waukesha, Wis.), Meghan L. Yue (Johnson Creek, Wis.), Nicholas Mathew (Milwaukee) and Jonathan S. Maltz (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides methods and systems to reduce an amount of noise in image data. In one example, a method for creating synthetic computed tomography (CT) images for training a model to reduce an amount of noise in acquired CT images is proposed, comprising performing a tissue segmentation of reference im...