US Patent Issued to Merative US on June 17 for "Estimation of b-value in prostate magnetic resonance diffusion weighted images" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,714, issued on June 17, was assigned to Merative US LP (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Estimation of b-value in prostate magnetic resonance diffusion weighted images" was invented by Wen Wei (Orsay, France), Giovanni John Jacques Palma (Orsay, France) and Amin Katouzian (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of estimating b-values. One system including an electronic processor configured to receive a set of medical images associated with a patient, where the set of medical images are diffusion-weighted images. The electronic processor is also configured to extract a set of patches from each medical image included in...