US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on Oct. 7 for "MRI reconstruction based on generative models" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,187, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"MRI reconstruction based on generative models" was invented by Zhang Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Siyuan Dong (New Haven, Conn.), Shanhui Sun (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deep learning-based systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for MRI reconstruction and/or refinement. An MRI image may be reconstructed based on under-sampled MRI information and a generative model may be trained to refine the reconstruct...