US Patent Issued to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Image enhancement method for analysis of mammogram images" (Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,556, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY (Najran, Saudi Arabia).

"Image enhancement method for analysis of mammogram images" was invented by Yassir Edrees Almalki (Najran, Saudi Arabia), Toufique Ahmed Soomro (Larkana, Pakistan), Muhammad Irfan (Najran, Saudi Arabia), Sharifa Khalid Alduraibi (Buraydah, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Ali (Larkana, Pakistan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a mammogram image, including receiving a digital mammography image of a breast of a patient, and separating the digital mammography image into three channels. The method includes removing noise and uneven illumination to...