Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Philps

Elizabeth Philps 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: 9424644
    Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating bone lesions include accessing a first dataset acquired from a patient with a first imaging modality and a second dataset acquired from the patient with a second imaging modality. A segmentation is performed on the first dataset to identify a subset of the first dataset corresponding to a skeletal structure of the patient and a patient skeletal metric representing a total bone volume of the patient is automatically calculated from the subset of the first dataset. The methods and systems further include detection of at least one lesion in the second dataset, classification of the at least one lesion as a bone or non-bone lesion, automatic calculation of a bone lesion metric based on the classification, and calculation of a lesion burden as a ratio of the bone lesion metric and the patient skeletal metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pal Csongor Sprencz, Robert John Johnsen, Istvan Ubelhart, Elizabeth Philps, Andras Kriston, Andrea Fazekas
  • Publication number: 20160171687
    Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating bone lesions include accessing a first dataset acquired from a patient with a first imaging modality and a second dataset acquired from the patient with a second imaging modality. A segmentation is performed on the first dataset to identify a subset of the first dataset corresponding to a skeletal structure of the patient and a patient skeletal metric representing a total bone volume of the patient is automatically calculated from the subset of the first dataset. The methods and systems further include detection of at least one lesion in the second dataset, classification of the at least one lesion as a bone or non-bone lesion, automatic calculation of a bone lesion metric based on the classification, and calculation of a lesion burden as a ratio of the bone lesion metric and the patient skeletal metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Pal Csongor Sprencz, Robert John Johnsen, Istvan Ubelhart, Elizabeth Philps, Andras Kriston, Andrea Fazekas
  • Patent number: 9324140
    Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating bone lesions include accessing a first dataset acquired from a patient with a first imaging modality and a second dataset acquired from the patient with a second imaging modality. A segmentation is performed on the first dataset to identify a subset of the first dataset corresponding to a skeletal structure of the patient and a patient skeletal metric representing a total bone volume of the patient is automatically calculated from the subset of the first dataset. The methods and systems further include detection of at least one lesion in the second dataset, classification of the at least one lesion as a bone or non-bone lesion, automatic calculation of a bone lesion metric based on the classification, and calculation of a lesion burden as a ratio of the bone lesion metric and the patient skeletal metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pal Csongor Sprencz, Robert John Johnsen, Istvan Ubelhart, Elizabeth Philps, Andras Kriston, Andrea Fazekas
  • Publication number: 20150063667
    Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating bone lesions include accessing a first dataset acquired from a patient with a first imaging modality and a second dataset acquired from the patient with a second imaging modality. A segmentation is performed on the first dataset to identify a subset of the first dataset corresponding to a skeletal structure of the patient and a patient skeletal metric representing a total bone volume of the patient is automatically calculated from the subset of the first dataset. The methods and systems further include detection of at least one lesion in the second dataset, classification of the at least one lesion as a bone or non-bone lesion, automatic calculation of a bone lesion metric based on the classification, and calculation of a lesion burden as a ratio of the bone lesion metric and the patient skeletal metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pal Csongor Sprencz, Robert John Johnsen, Istvan Ubelhart, Elizabeth Philps, Andras Kriston, Andrea Fazekas