Patents by Inventor Kathleen MALINOWSKI

Kathleen MALINOWSKI 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).

  • Method for monitoring the accuracy of tissue motion prediction from surrogates
    Patent number: 9433389
    Abstract: A system and method for indirectly monitoring the position of a target inside a body is disclosed. The method includes generating position data associated with one or more surrogate devices and predicting a location of the target from the position data based on a target position model that establishes a relationship between an actual location of the target and the position data of the one or more surrogate devices. The method also includes determining that the predicted location of the target deviates from the actual location of the target when an analysis of an error prediction model results in a confidence threshold being exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
    Inventors: Warren D'Souza, Kathleen Malinowski, Thomas McAvoy
  • Techniques for compensating movement of a treatment target in a patient
    Patent number: 8747382
    Abstract: One embodiment includes a method of predicting a position of a target site inside a body using surrogates is provided. The method includes transforming surrogate measurements and target positions into different representations by applying an operator, establishing a special relationship between the transformed surrogate measurements and the transformed target positions, and continuously predicting the target position from the transformed surrogate measurements and the established special relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland, College Park
    Inventors: Warren D'Souza, Hao Zhang, Kathleen Malinowski
  • Method For Monitoring the Accuracy of Tissue Motion Prediction from Surrogates
    Publication number: 20130018232
    Abstract: A system and method for indirectly monitoring the position of a target inside a body is disclosed. The method includes generating position data associated with one or more surrogate devices and predicting a location of the target from the position data based on a target position model that establishes a relationship between an actual location of the target and the position data of the one or more surrogate devices. The method also includes determining that the predicted location of the target deviates from the actual location of the target when an analysis of an error prediction model results in a confidence threshold being exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Warren D'Souza, Kathleen Malinowski, Thomas McAvoy
  • TECHNIQUES FOR COMPENSATING MOVEMENT OF A TREATMENT TARGET IN A PATIENT
    Publication number: 20120004518
    Abstract: One embodiment includes a method of predicting a position of a target site inside a body using surrogates is provided. The method includes transforming surrogate measurements and target positions into different representations by applying an operator, establishing a special relationship between the transformed surrogate measurements and the transformed target positions, and continuously predicting the target position from the transformed surrogate measurements and the established special relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Warren D'SOUZA, Hao ZHANG, Kathleen MALINOWSKI