US Patent Issued to The Methodist Hospital on Aug. 25 for "Method of CT denoising employing deep learning of multiple co-registered scans of the same person and group convolutional neural network analyses" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,335, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Methodist Hospital (Houston).

"Method of CT denoising employing deep learning of multiple co-registered scans of the same person and group convolutional neural network analyses" was invented by Kelvin Wong (Houston), Stephen T.C. Wong (Houston) and John J. Volpi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a novel CT denoising method using deep learning to boost the image signal-to-noise ratio for improved disease detection in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). This method reduced the original CT image noise significantly better than BM3D, with SNR improvements in GM, WM, an...