US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG LAB on July 22 for "Multi-task learning based regions-of-interest enhancement in PET image reconstruction" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,622, issued on July 22, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Multi-task learning based regions-of-interest enhancement in PET image reconstruction" was invented by Wentao Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Bao Yang (Hangzhou, China) and Yuanfeng Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for region-of-interest enhanced PET image reconstruction based on multi-task learning, which comprises the following steps: firstly, acquiring a backprojection image of the PET original data, and designing a main task of establishing a mapping between the backprojection image and a reconstructed PET image by using a thre...