US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on Feb. 18 for "Deep learning methods for noise suppression in medical imaging" (New York, Connecticut, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,629, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Deep learning methods for noise suppression in medical imaging" was invented by Neel Dey (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jo Schlemper (Long Island City, N.Y.), Seyed Sadegh Moshen Salehi (Bloomfield, N.J.), Michal Sofka (Princeton, N.J.) and Prantik Kundu (Branford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for denoising a magnetic resonance (MR) image are provided, including: obtaining a noisy MR image; denoising the noisy MR image of the subject using a denoising neural network model, and outputting a denoised MR image. The denoising neural network model ...