ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,799, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).
"Pet image reconstruction method based on swin-transformer regularization" was invented by Huafeng Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Rui Hu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a PET image reconstruction method based on Swin-Transformer regularization, the reconstruction model adopted is composed of several iterative modules, each iterative module consists of three parts: a EM iterative layer, a Swin-transformer based regularization layer, a pixel to pixel image fusion layer, the regularization layer is used to learn the ...