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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2022
Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Yikang Liu, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shanhui Sun, Lexington, MA (US);
Terrence Chen, Lexington, MA (US);
Zhang Chen, Brookline, MA (US);
Xiao Chen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with medical image enhancement. The medical image may include an object of interest and the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify the object and enhance a contrast between the object and its surrounding area by adjusting at least the pixels associated with the object. The object identification may be performed using an image filter, a segmentation mask, and/or a deep neural network trained to separate the medical image into multiple layers that respectively include the object of interest and the surrounding area. Once identified, the pixels of the object may be manipulated in various ways to increase the visibility of the object. These may include, for example, adding a constant value to the pixels of the object, applying a sharpening filter to those pixels, increasing the weight of those pixels, and/or smoothing the edge areas surrounding the object of interest.