ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,917, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and methods for filtering medical images" was invented by Erik Normann Steen (Horten, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for training machine learning models to filter medical images with a reduced incidence of filtering artifact inclusion. In one example, training data may be generated by applying a filter to a medical image to produce a filtered medical image, wherein a subregion of the filtered medical image includes a filtering artifact, displaying the filtered medical image via a display device, rece...