US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on March 18 for "Process for iteratively reconstructing images using deep learning" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,533, issued on March 18, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Process for iteratively reconstructing images using deep learning" was invented by Mayank Patwari (Erlangen, Germany), Ralf Gutjahr (Nuremberg, Germany) and Rainer Raupach (Heroldsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method of iteratively reconstructing images or a volume using deep learning and a computer-implemented method of training, projection filter parameter(s) of a projection (joint) bilateral filter, (J)BF, are automatically tuned by a first trained neural network based on data of projections of an imagi...