US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 10 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processor, and image noise reduction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,124, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processor, and image noise reduction method" was invented by Atsuro Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Tomoki Amemiya (Chiba, Japan), Yukio Kaneko (Chiba, Japan), Toru Shirai (Chiba, Japan) and Keisuke Nishio (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image noise reduction process using a CNN, noise can be reduced effectively irrespective of signal levels and noise levels of the image. Noise information and signal level information are calculated from an image inputted in the CNN. Using the calculated information, a normalization ...