US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 29 for "Method and system for generating a synthetic elastography image" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,887, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for generating a synthetic elastography image" was invented by Rogier Rudolf Wildeboer (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Ruud Johannes Gerardus van Sloun (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for generating a synthetic elastography image (18), the method comprising the steps of (a) receiving a B-mode ultrasound image (5) of a region of interest; (b) generating a synthetic elastography image (18) of the region of interest by applying a trained artificial neural network (16) to the ...