US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on April 29 for "Systems and methods for artifact reduction in tomosynthesis with deep learning image processing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,284, issued on April 29, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for artifact reduction in tomosynthesis with deep learning image processing" was invented by Dufan Wu (Boston), Kyungsang Kim (Boston) and Quanzheng Li (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a deep learning-based digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) image reconstruction that mitigates limited angular artifacts and improves in-depth resolution of the resulting images. The systems and methods may reduce the sparse-view artifacts in DBT via deep learning without losing image sharpness and contrast. A deep ...