US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on July 15 for "Systems and methods for deblurring and denoising medical images" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,520, issued on July 15, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for deblurring and denoising medical images" was invented by Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deblurring and denoising a medical image such as X-ray fluoroscopy images may be challenging, and deep-learning based techniques may be employed to meet the challenge. An artificial neural network (ANN) may be trained using training images with synthetic noise and as wel...