ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,324, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for processing medical images with multi-layer perceptron neural networks" was invented by Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.) and Chi Zhang (Fridley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with using a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network to process medical images of an anatomical structure. The processing may include pa...