Patents by Inventor Kelly Lynn Piacsek

Kelly Lynn Piacsek 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).

  • Methods and systems for monitoring tumor burden
    Patent number: 8229200
    Abstract: Methods and systems for quantification of a selected attribute of an image volume are provided. The system is configured to receive an image dataset for a volume of interest, process the dataset for a selected attribute based at least on one of shape and texture to obtain a plurality of responses, and compute an index of an aggregate of a plurality of obtained responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Lynn Piacsek, Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Matthieu Denis Ferrant, Gopal B. Avinash
  • Detection of thrombi in CT using energy discrimination
    Patent number: 7599465
    Abstract: An imaging scanner includes a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a computer programmed to decompose CT data acquired by the radiation detector into a set of pixels, each pixel having at least a first basis material content and a second basis material content. The computer is further programmed to identify a first subset of the set of pixels as a possible embolism, based on the content of the first basis material and the content of the second basis material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Deborah Joy Walter, Yanfeng Du, Kelly Lynn Piacsek
  • Device-less gating of physiological movement for improved image detection
    Patent number: 7574249
    Abstract: A method of imaging an object using a medical imaging system is provided. The imaging method acquires a stream of sinogram data. Changes in the stream of sinogram data corresponding to movement of the object are detected. The method selects portions of the stream of sinogram data. An image of the object based on the selected portions of the sinogram data is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Lynn Piacsek, Janice Chu, Steven Gerald Kohlmyer, Michael Joseph Cook, Michael George Bonner, Patrick Joseph O'Day
  • Methods and apparatus for 4DCT imaging systems
    Patent number: 7443946
    Abstract: A method includes receiving cine scan data, receiving a plurality of target phases of a periodic waveform, and generating a plurality of images, each image centered at one of the received target phases. A phase shall represent a percentage of a period of a repeating cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Wayne Deller, Kelly Lynn Piacsek, Steven Gerald Kohlmyer
  • Methods and apparatus for detecting structural, perfusion, and functional abnormalities
    Patent number: 7058155
    Abstract: A method for obtaining data includes scanning a lung of a patient with a Multi-Energy Computed Tomography (MECT) system to acquire data regarding a plurality of contrast agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Lynn Piacsek, John Michael Sabol