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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2022
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Christopher P. Favazza, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrea Ferrero, Rochester, MN (US);
Liqiang Ren, Rochester, MN (US);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Abstract
Metal artifacts are reduced in x-ray computed tomography ('CT') images using a suitably trained neural network, such as a convolutional neural network (“CNN”). Virtual metal DATA objects are inserted to either the raw projection data or CT image data (e.g., from pre-procedural CT scans) to generate sets of matching artifact-corrupted and artifact-uncorrupted images, and a CNN, or other neural network, is trained to separate the contribution to each image pixel due to patient anatomy, metal object, or metal object-induced artifact. The contributions from metal object-induced artifacts can then be removed to generate a final, artifact-reduced image.