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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2022
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Nathan R. Huber, Saint Peter, MN (US);
Shuai Leng, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew D. Missert, Rochester, MN (US);
Lifeng Yu, Byron, MN (US);
Cynthia H. Mccollough, Byron, MN (US);
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Abstract
A neural network is trained and implemented to simultaneously remove noise and artifacts from medical images using a Generalized noise and Artifact Reduction Network ('GARNET') method for training a convolutional neural network (“CNN”) or other suitable neural network or machine learning algorithm. Noise and artifact realizations from phantom images are used to synthetically corrupt images for training. Corrupted and uncorrupted image pairs are used for training GARNET. Following the training phase, GARNET can be used to improve image quality of routine medical images by way of noise and artifact reduction.