US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Sept. 15 for "Image processing device and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,951, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Kibo Ote (Hamamatsu, Japan), Fumio Hashimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuya Onishi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method, starting from a certain initial state, creates a tomographic image of a subject by repeatedly performing a reconstruction step, a CNN processing step, and an update step a plurality of times. In the reconstruction step, a first image is created by performing processing by using a list mode iterative reconstruction method. In ...