US Patent Issued to Novocure on Sept. 1 for "Removal of background noise from image" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,232, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Removal of background noise from image" was invented by Yana Glozman (Haifa, Israel), Reuven Ruby Shamir (Haifa, Israel) and Yissachar Abraham (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to background noise from a medical image comprising voxels, each voxel having a voxel intensity, the method comprising: generating a mask based on the medical image, wherein the mask comprises a foreground portion designating foreground voxels, a background portion designating background voxels, and a perimeter separating the foreground portion...