Patents by Inventor Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle

Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle 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).

  • Correlated image mapping pointer
    Patent number: 9430831
    Abstract: A system (106) visualizing an image registration mapping in an intuitive interactive manner. The system (106) includes a display (110) and one or more processors (116). The processors (116) are programmed to receive a first image and a second image and obtain an image registration mapping from the first image to the second image. Even more, the processors (116) are programmed to display the first image adjacent to the second image on the display (110) and obtain one or more reference image locations. Each of the reference image locations is defined in the coordinate frame of one of the first image and the second image. Moreover, the processors (116) are programmed to highlight each of the reference image locations on the one of the first image and the second image and highlight a correlated image location for each of the reference image locations in the other one of the first image and the second image. The correlated image locations are determined using the image registration mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Karl Antonin Bzdusek, Carl Graham Rowbottom, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle, Jeffrey Vincent Siebers
  • CORRELATED IMAGE MAPPING POINTER
    Publication number: 20140049555
    Abstract: A system (106) visualizing an image registration mapping in an intuitive interactive manner. The system (106) includes a display (110) and one or more processors (116). The processors (116) are programmed to receive a first image and a second image and obtain an image registration mapping from the first image to the second image. Even more, the processors (116) are programmed to display the first image adjacent to the second image on the display (110) and obtain one or more reference image locations. Each of the reference image locations is defined in the coordinate frame of one of the first image and the second image. Moreover, the processors (116) are programmed to highlight each of the reference image locations on the one of the first image and the second image and highlight a correlated image location for each of the reference image locations in the other one of the first image and the second image. The correlated image locations are determined using the image registration mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Karl Antonin Bzdusek, Carl Graham Rowbottom, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle, Jeffrey Vincent Siebers
  • Reduction of transitivity errors in radiotherapy image registration
    Patent number: 8526692
    Abstract: Deformation maps (e.g. deformation vector fields) used for correcting image-type data used in the treatment of patients in radiotherapy may be processed to eliminate inverse inconsistency and transitivity type errors which produce different results depending on the order or path of the calculation of deformation. The correction permits registration of a treatment plan with the changing patient image and accumulation of dose to a common reference frame without transformation dependent artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Axel Tomé, Edward Thomas Bender, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle
  • Reduction of Transitivity Errors in Radiotherapy Image Registration
    Publication number: 20130004034
    Abstract: Deformation maps (e.g. deformation vector fields) used for correcting image-type data used in the treatment of patients in radiotherapy may be processed to eliminate inverse inconsistency and transitivity type errors which produce different results depending on the order or path of the calculation of deformation. The correction permits registration of a treatment plan with the changing patient image and accumulation of dose to a common reference frame without transformation dependent artifacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Axel Tomé, Edward Thomas Bender, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle