US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for artifact reduction in tomosynthesis with multi-scale deep learning image processing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,296, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a multi-scale deep learning-based digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) image reconstruction that mitigates the superposition of breast tissue along with the limited angular artifacts, and improves in-depth resolution of the resulting images. A multi-scale deep neural network may be used where a first net...