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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jiahua Fan, Waukesha, WI (US);
Meghan L. Yue, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Waukesha, WI (US);
Roman Melnyk, Waukesha, WI (US);
Masatake Nukui, Hino, JP;
Yujiro Yazaki, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 6/03 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01); A61B 6/482 (2013.01); A61B 6/582 (2013.01); G01N 2223/401 (2013.01); G01N 2223/419 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20182 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging system includes a computer programmed to estimate noise in computed tomography (CT) imaging data, correlate the noise estimation with neighboring CT imaging data to generate a weighting estimation based on the correlation, de-noise the CT imaging data based on the noise estimation and on the weighting, and reconstruct an image using the de-noised CT imaging data.