Patents Examined by Van D Huynh
  • Patent number: 11798159
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radiology image classification from noisy images in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes noisy image classification device, including a processor, camera circuitry, and a memory containing a noisy image classification application, where the noisy image classification application directs the processor to obtain image data describing a first image taken of a second image using the camera circuitry, where the second image was produced by a medical imaging device, and where the first image is a noisy version of the second image, classify the image data using a neural network trained to be robust to noise, generate an investigation recommendation based on the classification, and provide the investigation recommendation via a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Sharon Zhou, Andrew Y. Ng, Pranav Rajpurkar, Mark Sabini, Chris Wang, Nguyet Minh Phu, Amirhossein Kiani, Jeremy Irvin, Matthew Lungren
  • Patent number: 11790532
    Abstract: Method for cutting a three-dimensional model of a dental scene, or “scene model.” The method includes acquiring a view of the scene model, called the “analysis view.” The method includes analyzing the analysis view by a neural network in order to identify, in the analysis view, at least one elementary zone representing an element of the dental scene, and assigning a value to at least one attribute of the elementary zone. The method includes identifying a region of the scene model represented by the elementary zone on the analysis view, and assigning, in the region, a value to an attribute of the scene model in accordance with the value of the attribute of the elementary zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DENTAL MONITORING
    Inventors: Philippe Salah, Thomas Pellissard, Guillaume Ghyselinck, Laurent Debraux
  • Patent number: 11783500
    Abstract: A system for generating a depth output for an image is described. The system receives input images that depict the same scene, each input image including one or more potential objects. The system generates, for each input image, a respective background image and processes the background images to generate a camera motion output that characterizes the motion of the camera between the input images. For each potential object, the system generates a respective object motion output for the potential object based on the input images and the camera motion output. The system processes a particular input image of the input images using a depth prediction neural network (NN) to generate a depth output for the particular input image, and updates the current values of parameters of the depth prediction NN based on the particular depth output, the camera motion output, and the object motion outputs for the potential objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Michael Casser, Soeren Pirk, Reza Mahjourian, Anelia Angelova
  • Patent number: 11783477
    Abstract: A medical image learning method of a medical image process apparatus includes preparing a plurality of body X-ray images for learning as an input of a learning data set, preparing internal diagnostic indicator information corresponding to each of the plurality of body X-ray images for learning as a label of the learning data set, and learning an artificial neural network model using the learning data set. The internal diagnostic indicator information includes information on a cardiovascular border. The information on the cardiovascular border includes information on at least one of an aortic knob, a pulmonary conus, a left atrial appendage, an upper right cardiac border, a lower right cardiac border, a lower left cardiac border, a descending aorta, a carina, an upper end point of a diaphragm, a right pulmonary artery, a posterior cardiac border, and an anterior spinal border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Yang, June Goo Lee, Gaeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11775058
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a gaze vector of an eye using a trained neural network. An input image of the eye may be received from a camera. The input image may be provided to the neural network. Network output data may be generated using the neural network. The network output data may include two-dimensional (2D) pupil data, eye segmentation data, and/or cornea center data. The gaze vector may be computed based on the network output data. The neural network may be previously trained by providing a training input image to the neural network, generating training network output data, receiving ground-truth (GT) data, computing error data based on a difference between the training network output data and the GT data, and modifying the neural network based on the error data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Badrinarayanan, Zhengyang Wu, Srivignesh Rajendran, Andrew Rabinovich
  • Patent number: 11776095
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to applying lighting models to images of objects are provided. A neural network can be trained to apply a lighting model to an input image. The training of the neural network can utilize confidence learning that is based on light predictions and prediction confidence values associated with lighting of the input image. A computing device can receive an input image of an object and data about a particular lighting model to be applied to the input image. The computing device can determine an output image of the object by using the trained neural network to apply the particular lighting model to the input image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tiancheng Sun, Yun-ta Tsai, Jonathan Barron
  • Patent number: 11763502
    Abstract: A deep-learning-based method for metal artifact reduction in CT images includes providing a dataset and a cGAN. The dataset includes CT image pairs, randomly partitioned into a training set, a validation set, and a testing set. Each Pre-CT and Post-CT image pairs is respectively acquired in a region before and after an implant is implanted. The Pre-CT and Post-CT images of each pair are artifact-free CT and artifact-affected CT images, respectively. The cGAN is conditioned on the Post-CT images, includes a generator and a discriminator that operably compete with each other, and is characterized with a training objective that is a sum of an adversarial loss and a reconstruction loss. The method also includes training the cGAN with the dataset; inputting the post-operatively acquired CT image to the trained cGAN; and generating an artifact-corrected image by the trained cGAN, where metal artifacts are removed in the artifact-corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Benoit M. Dawant, Jianing Wang, Jack H. Noble, Robert F. Labadie
  • Patent number: 11756161
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method and system for generating multi-task learning-type generative adversarial network for low-dose PET reconstruction, and relates to the field of deep learning. The method includes connecting layers of the encoder with layers of the decoder by skip connection to provide a U-Net type picture generator; generating a group of generative adversarial networks by matching a plurality of picture generators with a plurality of discriminators in one-to-one manner; obtaining a first multi-task learning-type generative adversarial network; designing a joint loss function 1 for improving image quality; and training the first multi-task learning-type generative adversarial network according to the joint loss function 1 in combination with an optimizer to provide a second multi-task learning-type generative adversarial network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhanli Hu, Hairong Zheng, Na Zhang, Xin Liu, Dong Liang, Yongfeng Yang, Hanyu Sun
  • Patent number: 11756243
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method for determining nuclear medical image data sets in dynamic nuclear medical imaging. The method includes using a trained function to determine at least one further nuclear medical image data set for at least one frame if a basis raw data set is taken from one single frame, wherein input data of the trained function includes at least one of the nuclear medical raw data set of the respective frame or a preliminary reconstructed image reconstructed therefrom, and an already determined nuclear medical image data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Fenchel, Thomas Vahle
  • Patent number: 11748889
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a brain image segmentation method and apparatus, a network device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining, by a device, a to-be-segmented image group comprising a plurality of modal images of a brain. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes performing, by the device, skull stripping according to the plurality of modal images to obtain a skull-stripped mask; separately performing, by the device, feature extraction on the plurality of modal images to obtain extracted features, and fusing the extracted features to obtain a fused feature; segmenting, by the device, encephalic tissues according to the fused feature to obtain an initial segmentation result; and fusing, by the device, the skull-stripped mask and the initial segmentation result to obtain a segmentation result corresponding to the to-be-segmented image group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heng Guo, Yuexiang Li, Yefeng Zheng
  • Patent number: 11741580
    Abstract: Disclosed techniques for image processing three-dimensional image data include: obtaining three-dimensional image data representing contiguous slices parallel to a plane, constructing training data from the image data by, for each of a plurality of angles: rotating the image data in the plane to produce rotated image data, blurring the rotated image data in a dimension parallel to the plane to produce low resolution rotated image data, and introducing aliasing into the low resolution rotated image data in the dimension parallel to the plane to produce aliased low resolution rotated image data, training an anti-aliasing neural network with the aliased low resolution image data and the low resolution image data, training a super-resolution neural network with the aliased low resolution image data and the rotated image data, and processing the image data using the trained anti-aliasing neural network and the trained super-resolution neural network to produce processed image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jerry Prince, Can Zhao, Aaron Carass
  • Patent number: 11734831
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method for supporting X-ray image reading including receiving information associated with a reading target positioned in a reading space where X-rays pass through or are reflected off, acquiring a non X-RAY image of an item object based on the information associated with the reading target, and generating a fake X-RAY image of the item object by applying the non X-RAY image of the item object to the image transform model, and a system for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Junghyun Cho, Ig Jae Kim, Hyunwoo Cho, Haesol Park
  • Patent number: 11735316
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of labeling a target in an image, and a computer recording medium. The method includes: acquiring a first neural network, the first neural network includes a multi-layer convolutional neural network and a fully connected layer, wherein each layer of the multi-layer convolutional neural network includes a convolutional layer, an activation function layer and a down-sampling layer arranged successively; processing the image by using the multi-layer convolutional neural network of the first neural network acquired so as to obtain a target position mask for the image; and labeling the target in the image based on the target position mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongming Shi, Ge Ou, Qiong Wu, Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 11734819
    Abstract: An AI system may receive an image. The AI system may include a first AI model trained using labeled training images including images from prior mammograms to predict cancer and a second AI model trained using labeled training images including images from current mammograms to classify mammogram images. The second AI model may be initialized using the weights of the first AI model using transfer learning. The AI system may receive a classification output indicating a likely current breast cancer diagnosis or a likelihood of the user to develop breast cancer in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Aly Mohamed, Maria Victoria Sainz de Cea, David Richmond
  • Patent number: 11727087
    Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: accessing medical images of subjects, depicting contrast phases of contrast administered to the respective subject, accessing for a first subset of the medical images, metadata indicating a respective contrast phase, wherein a second subset of the medical images are unassociated with metadata, mapping each respective contrast phase of the contrast phases to a respective time interval indicating estimated amount of time from a start of contrast administration to time of capture of the respective medical image, creating a training dataset, by labelling images of the first subset with a label indicating the respective time interval, and including the second subset as non-labelled images, and training the ML model using the training dataset for generating an outcome of a target time interval indicating estimated amount of time from the start of contrast administration, in response to an input of a target medical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nano-X AI Ltd.
    Inventors: Raouf Muhamedrahimov, Amir Bar
  • Patent number: 11727573
    Abstract: Method of segmenting anatomical structures such as organs in 3D scans in an architecture that combines U-net, time-distributed convolutions and bidirectional convolutional LSTM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Agfa Healthcare NV, VRVis Zentrum fur Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Alexey Novikov, David Major, Maria Wimmer, Dimitrios Lenis, Katja Buehler
  • Patent number: 11710241
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing image segmentation with the integration of deep learning are disclosed herein. An example method for atlas-based segmentation using deep learning includes: applying a deep learning model to a subject image to identify an anatomical feature, registering an atlas image to the subject image, using the deep learning segmentation data to improve a registration result, generating a mapped atlas, and identifying the feature in the subject image using the mapped atlas. Another example method for training and use of a trained machine learning classifier, in an atlas-based segmentation process using deep learning, includes: applying a deep learning model to an atlas image, training a machine learning model classifier using data from applying the deep learning model, estimating structure labels of areas of the subject image, and defining structure labels by combining the estimated structure labels with labels produced from atlas-based segmentation on the subject image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Elekta, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Nicolette Patricia Magro
  • Patent number: 11710233
    Abstract: A machine-based learning method estimates a probability of bone fractures in a 3D image, more specifically vertebral fractures. The method and system utilizing such method utilize a data-driven computational model to learn 3D image features for classifying vertebra fractures. A three-dimensional medical image analysis system for predicting a presence of a vertebral fracture in a subject includes a 3D image processor for receiving and processing 3D image data of a 3D image of the subject, producing two or more sets of 3D voxels. Each of the sets of 3D voxels corresponds to an entirety of the 3D image and each of the sets of 3D voxels consists of equal 3D voxels of different dimensions. The system also includes a voxel classifier for assigning the 3D voxels one or more class probabilities each of the 3D voxels contains a fracture using a computational model, and a fracture probability estimator for estimating a probability of the presence of a vertebral fracture in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SRL
    Inventor: Joeri Nicolaes
  • Patent number: 11704808
    Abstract: A segmentation method for tumor regions in a pathological image of clear cell renal cell carcinoma based on deep learning includes data acquisition and pre-processing, building and training of a classification network SENet and prediction of tumor regions. The present invention studies clear cell renal cell carcinoma based on pathological images, yielding results with higher reliability than judgments made based on CT or MRI images. The present invention overcomes the drawback that the previous research on clear cell renal cell carcinoma is only limited to judgment on presence by being able to visually provide the position and size of tumor regions, which is convenient for the medical profession to better study the pathogenesis and directions to the treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: WUXI SECOND PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Ninghan Feng, Hong Tang, Guanzhen Yu, Jinzhu Su, Yang Wang, Yangkun Feng, Peng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11699302
    Abstract: To provide a technology of more accurately detecting spoofing in face authentication, without increasing a scale of a device configuration and a burden on a user. A spoofing detection device includes a facial image sequence acquisition unit, a line-of-sight change detection unit, a presentation information display unit, and a spoofing determination unit. The facial image sequence acquisition unit acquires a facial image sequence indicating the face of a user. The line-of-sight change detection unit detects information about a temporal change in the line-of-sight from the facial image sequence. The presentation information display unit displays presentation information presented to the user as part of an authentication process. The spoofing determination unit determines the likelihood of the face indicated by the facial image sequence being spoofing on the basis of the information about the temporal change in the line-of-sight with respect to the presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Morishita