US Patent Issued to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Method and device of detecting bone mineral density based on low dose computed tomography image of chest" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,502, issued on July 21, was assigned to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and device of detecting bone mineral density based on low dose computed tomography image of chest" was invented by Cheng-Yu Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Duen-Pang Kuo (Taipei City, Taiwan) and David Carroll Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices of processing a low-dose computed tomography (CT) image. The present disclosure provides a method of processing a low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image. The method includes receiving a first set of chest images, the first set of chest images g...