ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,823, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Method of generating training data and medical image processing apparatus for deep-learning-based mammography denoising" was invented by Rui Hua (Hefei, China), Haruki Iwai (Otawara, Japan) and Joseph Manak (Highland Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating training data for training a neural network. The neural network may be a machine learning model. The neural network may be a U-Net neural network. Training data for training a neural network may be generated by combining X-ray image data and non-X-r...