ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,274, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).
"System and method for machine learning based trackingless imaging volume reconstruction" was invented by Pingkun Yan (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Hengtao Guo (Troy, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ultrasound image volume reconstruction includes: providing a convolutional neural network ("CNN"); receiving a first dataset comprising at least one pair of consecutive ultrasound images; inputting the first dataset to the CNN; training the CNN with the first dataset; receiving a second dataset comprising an ultrasound video comprising a plural...