Patents by Inventor Sandro Braun

Sandro Braun 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: 10991092
    Abstract: For classifying magnetic resonance image quality or training to classify magnetic resonance image quality, deep learning is used to learn features distinguishing between corrupt images base on simulation and measured similarity. The deep learning uses synthetic data without quality annotation, allowing a large set of training data. The deep-learned features are then used as input features for training a classifier using training data annotated with ground truth quality. A smaller training data set may be needed to train the classifier due to the use of features learned without the quality annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Boris Mailhe, Xiao Chen, Benjamin L. Odry, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Patent number: 10713785
    Abstract: A system and method includes generation of one or more motion-corrupted images based on each of a plurality of reference images, and training of a regression network to determine a motion score, where training of the regression network includes input of a generated motion-corrupted image to the regression network, reception of a first motion score output by the regression network in response to the input image, and determination of a loss by comparison of the first motion score to a target motion score, the target motion score calculated based on the input motion-corrupted image and a reference image based on which the motion-corrupted image was generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Xiaoguang Lu, Boris Mailhe, Benjamin L. Odry, Xiao Chen, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Patent number: 10698063
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for correcting motion artifacts in magnetic resonance images. An image-to-image neural network is used to generate motion corrected magnetic resonance data given motion corrupted magnetic resonance data. The image-to-image neural network is coupled within an adversarial network to help refine the generated magnetic resonance data. The adversarial network includes a generator network (the image-to-image neural network) and a discriminator network. The generator network is trained to minimize a loss function based on a Wasserstein distance when generating MR data. The discriminator network is trained to differentiate the motion corrected MR data from motion artifact free MR data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Boris Mailhe, Xiao Chen, Benjamin L. Odry, Pascal Ceccaldi, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Publication number: 20200051239
    Abstract: For classifying magnetic resonance image quality or training to classify magnetic resonance image quality, deep learning is used to learn features distinguishing between corrupt images base on simulation and measured similarity. The deep learning uses synthetic data without quality annotation, allowing a large set of training data. The deep-learned features are then used as input features for training a classifier using training data annotated with ground truth quality. A smaller training data set may be needed to train the classifier due to the use of features learned without the quality annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Boris Mailhe, Xiao Chen, Benjamin L. Odry, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Publication number: 20190128989
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for correcting motion artifacts in magnetic resonance images. An image-to-image neural network is used to generate motion corrected magnetic resonance data given motion corrupted magnetic resonance data. The image-to-image neural network is coupled within an adversarial network to help refine the generated magnetic resonance data. The adversarial network includes a generator network (the image-to-image neural network) and a discriminator network. The generator network is trained to minimize a loss function based on a Wasserstein distance when generating MR data. The discriminator network is trained to differentiate the motion corrected MR data from motion artifact free MR data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Boris Mailhe, Xiao Chen, Benjamin L. Odry, Pascal Ceccaldi, Mariappan S. Nadar
  • Publication number: 20180232878
    Abstract: A system and method includes generation of one or more motion-corrupted images based on each of a plurality of reference images, and training of a regression network to determine a motion score, where training of the regression network includes input of a generated motion-corrupted image to the regression network, reception of a first motion score output by the regression network in response to the input image, and determination of a loss by comparison of the first motion score to a target motion score, the target motion score calculated based on the input motion-corrupted image and a reference image based on which the motion-corrupted image was generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Sandro Braun, Xiaoguang Lu, Boris Mailhe, Benjamin L. Odry, Xiao Chen, Mariappan S. Nadar