US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on March 31 for "Device for inferring material density image, CT system, storage medium, and method of creating trained neural network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,972, issued on March 31, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Device for inferring material density image, CT system, storage medium, and method of creating trained neural network" was invented by Yasuhiro Imai (Hino, Japan), Yuri Teraoka (Hino, Japan) and Ayako Matsumi (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including one or more processor for performing an operation, the operation including inputting a CT image into a first trained neural network, causing the first trained neural network to infer a virtual monochromatic X-ray image based on the CT image, generating a water density image and i...