ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,524, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Enhancement of medical images" was invented by Qiang Zhang (Oxford, Great Britain), Stefan Piechnik (Oxford, Great Britain), Vanessa Ferreira (Oxford, Great Britain), Evan Hann (Oxford, Great Britain) and Iulia Andreia Popescu (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for enhancing magnetic resonance images to produce contrast-enhanced images without the need to administer contrast agent to a patient. The image processing apparatus utilises a trained machine learning algorithm as an image processor, p...