US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation on June 2 for "Context-aware volumetric style transfer for estimating single volume surrogates of lung function" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,493, issued on June 2, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Context-aware volumetric style transfer for estimating single volume surrogates of lung function" was invented by Muhammad F. A. Chaudhary (Iowa City, Iowa), Joseph M. Reinhardt (Iowa City, Iowa), Sarah E. Gerard (Iowa City, Iowa) and Eric A. Hoffman (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine implemented method includes acquiring at a processor a first image of a patent by performing a computed tomography (CT) scan of a patient and applying at the processor a generative neural network model to the first image of the patient...