Patents by Inventor Alison O'Neil

Alison O'Neil 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).

  • Publication number: 20240055106
    Abstract: A medical information processing system for processing medical data relating to a target patient comprises a memory storing a knowledge base, wherein the knowledge base is based on medical knowledge; and processing circuitry configured to receive trigger information; and determine a necessity of alerting relating to the trigger information based on the trigger information and the knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hannah WATSON, Alison O'NEIL, Hamish MACKINNON
  • Patent number: 11853333
    Abstract: An apparatus for medical text processing comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain a trained model, wherein the trained model is trained to classify medical text documents with a medical classification code; apply the trained model to at least one medical text document to obtain weightings for text terms included in the at least one medical text document, wherein the weightings are associated with the medical classification code; and use the weightings to perform a searching or indexing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alison O'Neil, Matus Falis
  • Publication number: 20230103692
    Abstract: An apparatus for training a model to identify abnormal medical/image data comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive medical/image data; obtain a local region and a context region from the medical/image data; generate abnormal medical/image data using the local region and/or the context region; train a model using the medical/image data and the generated abnormal medical/image data to identify abnormal medical/image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Antanas KASCENAS, Alison O'NEIL
  • Patent number: 11610303
    Abstract: A medical image data processing apparatus is provided and includes processing circuitry to receive medical image data in respect of at least one subject; receive non-image data; generate a filter based on the non-image data; and apply the filter to the medical image data, wherein the filter limits a region of the medical image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grzegorz Jacenków, Sotirios Tsaftaris, Brian Mohr, Alison O'Neil, Aneta Lisowska
  • Publication number: 20230070715
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus comprises: a memory which stores a plurality of semantic ranking values for a plurality of medical terms, wherein each of the semantic ranking values relates to a degree of semantic similarity between a respective pair of the medical terms; and processing circuitry configured to train a model based on the semantic ranking values, wherein the model comprises a respective vector representation for each of the medical terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maciej PAJAK, Alison O'NEIL, Hannah WATSON
  • Patent number: 11580390
    Abstract: A medical system comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive a first trained model, wherein the trained model has been trained using a first data set acquired in a first cohort; receive a second data set acquired in a second cohort; input data included in the second data set and data representative of the first trained model into a second trained model; and receive from the second trained model an affinity-relating value which represents an affinity between the data included in the second data set and the first trained model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Owen Anderson, Aneta Lisowska, Alison O'Neil
  • Publication number: 20220270721
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus is for processing medical text data using a medical text processing model. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive a portion of medical text data; determine a template corresponding to the portion of medical text data, a classification label associated with the template, and a first medical term included in the portion of medical text data; specify a second medical term which is different from the first medical term, wherein the second medical term is related to the first medical term; and generate synthetic text data based on the second term by inserting the second medical term into the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick SCHREMPF, Alison O'NEIL, Hannah WATSON
  • Patent number: 11379978
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to apply a first trained model to input image data to obtain a first output based on the input data, where the input data includes clinical data. The processing circuitry is further configured to apply a second trained model to the input data to obtain a second output based on the input data, where the first trained model and the second trained model have been trained in dependence on a hierarchical relationship between the first output and the second output. The hierarchical relationship includes at least one of: a spatial hierarchy, a temporal hierarchy, an anatomical hierarchy, and a hierarchy of clinical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Owen Anderson, Aneta Lisowska, Alison O'Neil, Keith Goatman
  • Publication number: 20220147768
    Abstract: An image data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive first medical image data; obtain a first image feature data set from the first medical image data; obtain a second image feature data set from second medical image data and/or from stored image feature data; obtain style data; and generate synthesized image data based on the first image feature data set, the second image feature data set, and the style data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Spyridon THERMOS, Sotirios TSAFTARIS, Alison O'NEIL
  • Publication number: 20220067074
    Abstract: An apparatus for medical text processing comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain a trained model, wherein the trained model is trained to classify medical text documents with a medical classification code; apply the trained model to at least one medical text document to obtain weightings for text terms included in the at least one medical text document, wherein the weightings are associated with the medical classification code; and use the weightings to perform a searching or indexing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alison O'NEIL, Matus FALIS
  • Publication number: 20220020142
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to apply a first trained model to input image data to obtain a first output based on the input data, where the input data includes clinical data. The processing circuitry is further configured to apply a second trained model to the input data to obtain a second output based on the input data, where the first trained model and the second trained model have been trained in dependence on a hierarchical relationship between the first output and the second output. The hierarchical relationship includes at least one of: a spatial hierarchy, a temporal hierarchy, an anatomical hierarchy, and a hierarchy of clinical conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Owen ANDERSON, Aneta LISOWSKA, Alison O'NEIL, Keith GOATMAN
  • Patent number: 11189367
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining similarity between medical data sets for a plurality of patients or other subjects comprises at least one data store and a processing resource. The at least one data store is configured to store a respective representation of each of a plurality of data sets, the representation of each data set being generated by applying a model for representing data sets with respect to a plurality of features. The processing resource is configured to use the model to obtain a representation of a further medical data set, and perform a similarity determining process to determine similarity between the representation of the further medical data set and at least some of said representations of said plurality of medical data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aneta Lisowska, Alison O'Neil, Ian Poole
  • Publication number: 20210279863
    Abstract: A medical image data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data in respect of at least one subject; receive non-image data; generate a filter based on the non-image data; and apply the filter to the medical image data, wherein the filter is configured to limit a region of the medical image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grzegorz JACENKÓW, Sotirios TSAFTARIS, Brian MOHR, Alison O'NEIL, Aneta LISOWSKA
  • Publication number: 20210225508
    Abstract: A medical system comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive a first trained model, wherein the trained model has been trained using a first data set acquired in a first cohort; receive a second data set acquired in a second cohort; input data included in the second data set and data representative of the first trained model into a second trained model; and receive from the second trained model an affinity-relating value which represents an affinity between the data included in the second data set and the first trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Owen ANDERSON, Aneta LISOWSKA, Alison O'NEIL
  • Publication number: 20190371439
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining similarity between medical data sets for a plurality of patients or other subjects comprises at least one data store and a processing resource. The at least one data store is configured to store a respective representation of each of a plurality of data sets, the representation of each data set being generated by applying a model for representing data sets with respect to a plurality of features. The processing resource is configured to use the model to obtain a representation of a further medical data set, and perform a similarity determining process to determine similarity between the representation of the further medical data set and at least some of said representations of said plurality of medical data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aneta Lisowska, Alison O'Neil, Ian Poole
  • Patent number: 9189866
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus, comprises a landmark identification unit configured to process a medical image data set to identify a landmark corresponding to a part of a branching structure according to a stored anatomical representation, and a spatial analysis unit configured to process the image data set to determine a spatial configuration of at least part of the branching structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ian Poole, Colin Roberts, Paul Norman, Alison O'Neil
  • Publication number: 20140254906
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus, comprises a landmark identification unit configured to process a medical image data set to identify a landmark corresponding to a part of a branching structure according to a stored anatomical representation, and a spatial analysis unit configured to process the image data set to determine a spatial configuration of at least part of the branching structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ian POOLE, Colin Roberts, Paul Norman, Alison O'Neil