Patents by Inventor Akif Burak Tosun

Akif Burak Tosun 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: 11842488
    Abstract: Pathologists are adopting digital pathology for diagnosis, using whole slide images (WSIs). Explainable AI (xAI) is a new approach to AI that can reveal underlying reasons for its results. As such, xAI can promote safety, reliability, and accountability of machine learning for critical tasks such as pathology diagnosis. HistoMapr provides intelligent xAI guides for pathologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. HistoMapr can previews entire pathology cases' WSIs, identifies key diagnostic regions of interest (ROIs), determines one or more conditions associated with each ROI, provisionally labels each ROI with the identified conditions, and can triages them. The ROIs are presented to the pathologist in an interactive, explainable fashion for rapid interpretation. The pathologist can be in control and can access xAI analysis via a “why?” interface. HistoMapr can track the pathologist's decisions and assemble a pathology report using suggested, standardized terminology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SpIntellx, Inc.
    Inventors: Akif Burak Tosun, Srinivas Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey Louis Fine
  • Publication number: 20230260256
    Abstract: A computational pathology method includes receiving multi-parameter cellular and/or sub-cellular imaging data for an image of a tissue sample, and locating and segmenting a plurality of tissue components of the tissue sample in the multi- parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data to generate segmented multi¬ parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    Inventors: Srinivas C. Chennubhotla, Akif Burak Tosun, Jeffrey Fine
  • Publication number: 20230142758
    Abstract: Pathologists are adopting digital pathology for diagnosis, using whole slide images (WSIs). Explainable AI (xAI) is a new approach to AI that can reveal underlying reasons for its results. As such, xAI can promote safety, reliability, and accountability of machine learning for critical tasks such as pathology diagnosis. HistoMapr provides intelligent xAI guides for pathologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. HistoMapr can previews entire pathology cases' WSIs, identifies key diagnostic regions of interest (ROls), determines one or more conditions associated with each ROI, provisionally labels each ROI with the identified conditions, and can triages them. The ROls are presented to the pathologist in an interactive, explainable fashion for rapid interpretation. The pathologist can be in control and can access xAI analysis via a “why?” interface. HistoMapr can track the pathologist's decisions and assemble a pathology report using suggested, standardized terminology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Akif Burak Tosun, Srinivas Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey Louis Fine
  • Publication number: 20230096719
    Abstract: A method (and system) of segmenting one or more histological structures in a tissue image represented by multi-parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data includes receiving coarsest level image data for the tissue image, wherein the coarsest level image data corresponds to a coarsest level of a multiscale representation of first data corresponding to the multi-parameter cellular and sub-cellular imaging data. The method further includes breaking the coarsest level image data into a plurality of non-overlapping superpixels, assigning each superpixel a probability of belonging to the one or more histological structures using a number of pre-trained machine learning algorithms to create a probability map, extracting an estimate of a boundary for the: one or more histological structures by applying a contour algorithm to the probability map, and using the estimate of the boundary to generate a refined boundary for the one or more histological structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Srinivas C. Chennubhotla, Om Choudhary, Akif Burak Tosun, Jeffrey Fine
  • Patent number: 11367184
    Abstract: Pathologists are adopting digital pathology for diagnosis, using whole slide images (WSIs). Explainable AI (xAI) is a new approach to AI that can reveal underlying reasons for its results. As such, xAI can promote safety, reliability, and accountability of machine learning for critical tasks such as pathology diagnosis. HistoMapr provides intelligent xAI guides for pathologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. HistoMapr can previews entire pathology cases' WSIs, identifies key diagnostic regions of interest (ROIs), determines one or more conditions associated with each ROI, provisionally labels each ROI with the identified conditions, and can triages them. The ROIs are presented to the pathologist in an interactive, explainable fashion for rapid interpretation. The pathologist can be in control and can access xAI analysis via a “why?” interface. HistoMapr can track the pathologist's decisions and assemble a pathology report using suggested, standardized terminology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SPINTELLX, INC.
    Inventors: Akif Burak Tosun, Srinivas Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey Louis Fine
  • Publication number: 20200294231
    Abstract: Pathologists are adopting digital pathology for diagnosis, using whole slide images (WSIs). Explainable AI (xAI) is a new approach to AI that can reveal underlying reasons for its results. As such, xAI can promote safety, reliability, and accountability of machine learning for critical tasks such as pathology diagnosis. HistoMapr provides intelligent xAI guides for pathologists to improve the efficiency and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. HistoMapr can previews entire pathology cases' WSIs, identifies key diagnostic regions of interest (ROIs), determines one or more conditions associated with each ROI, provisionally labels each ROI with the identified conditions, and can triages them. The ROIs are presented to the pathologist in an interactive, explainable fashion for rapid interpretation. The pathologist can be in control and can access xAI analysis via a “why?” interface. HistoMapr can track the pathologist's decisions and assemble a pathology report using suggested, standardized terminology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Akif Burak Tosun, Srinivas Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey Louis Fine