US Patent Issued to Washington University on Dec. 23 for "Methods and systems for resting state fMRI brain mapping with reduced imaging time" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,912, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Methods and systems for resting state fMRI brain mapping with reduced imaging time" was invented by Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis), Joshua Shimony (St. Louis), Patrick Luckett (St. Louis) and John Lee (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mapping brain function of a subject includes receiving a dataset of resting state fMRI (RS-fMRI) three dimensional (3D) image frames of the subject's brain, and inputting the 3D image frames to a deep learning artificial neural network. For each voxel of each 3D image frame and for each resting state network of ...