Patents by Inventor Yaofa Wang

Yaofa Wang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11715562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for multi-center effect compensation based on a PET/CT intelligent diagnosis system. The method includes the following steps: estimating multi-center effect parameters of a test center B relative to a training center A by implementing a nonparametric mathematical method for data of the training center A and the test center B based on a location-scale model about additive and multiplicative multi-center effect parameters, and using the parameters to compensate the data of the test center B to eliminate a multi-center effect between the test center B and the training center A. According to the present disclosure, the multi-center effect between the training center A and the test center B can be compensated, so that the compensated data of the test center B can be used in the model trained by the training center A, and the generalization ability of the model is indirectly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG LAB, MINFOUND MEDICAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ling Chen, Wentao Zhu, Bao Yang, Fan Rao, Hongwei Ye, Yaofa Wang
  • Publication number: 20220399119
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for multi-center effect compensation based on a PET/CT intelligent diagnosis system. The method includes the following steps: estimating multi-center effect parameters of a test center B relative to a training center A by implementing a nonparametric mathematical method for data of the training center A and the test center B based on a location-scale model about additive and multiplicative multi-center effect parameters, and using the parameters to compensate the data of the test center B to eliminate a multi-center effect between the test center B and the training center A. According to the present disclosure, the multi-center effect between the training center A and the test center B can be compensated, so that the compensated data of the test center B can be used in the model trained by the training center A, and the generalization ability of the model is indirectly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ling CHEN, Wentao ZHU, Bao YANG, Fan RAO, Hongwei YE, Yaofa WANG
  • Publication number: 20220383565
    Abstract: Disclosed is a three-dimensional low-dose PET reconstruction method based on deep learning. The method comprises the following steps: back projecting low-dose PET raw data to the image domain to maintain enough information from the raw data; selecting an appropriate three-dimensional deep neural network structure to fit the mapping between the back projection of the low-dose PET and a standard-dose PET image; after learning from the training samples the network parameters are fixed, realizing three-dimensional PET image reconstruction starting from low-dose PET raw data, thereby obtaining a low-dose PET reconstructed image which has a lower noise and a higher resolution compared with the traditional reconstruction algorithm and image domain noise reduction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Wentao ZHU, Bao YANG, Long ZHOU, Hongwei YE, Ling CHEN, Fan RAO, Yaofa WANG
  • Patent number: 11504085
    Abstract: A method for calibrating defective channels of a CT device involves in a step S10, acquiring original data collected by the CT device; in a step S20, capturing to-be-recovered areas from the original data, wherein the to-be-recovered areas contain the defective channels of the CT device; in a step S30, inputting data of the to-be-recovered areas to a neural network for training so as to generate training results; and in a step S40, using the training results to repair the to-be-recovered areas. The method eliminates effects of artifacts caused by defective channels on image reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MINFOUND MEDICAL SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aziz Ikhlef, Zheng Chu, Yaofa Wang
  • Publication number: 20200390414
    Abstract: A method for calibrating defective channels of a CT device involves in a step S10, acquiring original data collected by the CT device; in a step S20, capturing to-be-recovered areas from the original data, wherein the to-be-recovered areas contain the defective channels of the CT device; in a step S30, inputting data of the to-be-recovered areas to a neural network for training so as to generate training results; and in a step S40, using the training results to repair the to-be-recovered areas. The method eliminates effects of artifacts caused by defective channels on image reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Aziz Ikhlef, Zheng Chu, Yaofa Wang