US Patent Issued to Carestream Health on Oct. 7 for "Noise suppression using deep convolutional networks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,452, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Noise suppression using deep convolutional networks" was invented by William J. Sehnert (Fairport, N.Y.), Karin Toepfer (Rochester, N.Y.), Levon O. Vogelsang (Webster, N.Y.) and Lori L. Barski (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning network is trained to generate a noise field image from a radiographic (x-ray) image. The training includes accessing a number of previously acquired radiographic images, duplicating the previously acquired radiographic images, and conditioning each of the duplicated images with simulated noise cont...