Patents by Inventor Bernd Wachmann

Bernd Wachmann 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: 7720267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for classifying tissue based on image data. A plurality of tissue parameters are extracted from image data (e.g., magnetic resonance image data) to be classified. The parameters are preprocessed, and the tissue is classified using a classification algorithm and the preprocessed parameters. In one embodiment, the parameters are preprocessed by discretization of the parameters. The classification algorithm may use a decision model for the classification of the tissue, and the decision model may be generated by performing a machine learning algorithm using preprocessed tissue parameters in a training set of data. In one embodiment, the machine learning algorithm generates a Bayesian network. The image data used may be magnetic resonance image data that was obtained before and after the intravenous administration of lymphotropic superparamagnetic nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Fuchs, Bernd Wachmann, Claus Neubauer, Jie Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080138799
    Abstract: At least one genotype-phenotype relationship is extracted based on genotype data of a group of genes for different organisms of a group of organisms. A first database stores genotype data of each organism of the group of organisms. For each organism a genotype vector is stored having a vector component for each gene of the group of genes. A second database stores phenotype data of each organism of the group of organisms. For each organism a phenotype vector is stored having a vector component for each phenotype feature of a group of phenotype features of the organism. A calculation unit uses a machine learning process to classify organisms with different phenotypes depending on the genotype vectors stored in the first database and the phenotype vectors stored in the second database to extract the genotype-phenotype relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jie Cheng, Mathaeus Dejori, Martin Stetter, Bernd Wachmann
  • Patent number: 7240042
    Abstract: A method for analyzing biological data includes classifying a first set of biological data in a first classifier, classifying a second set of biological data in a second classifier, combining the results of the first classifier with the results of the second classifier, and analyzing the results as a function of the similarity measure of the first classifier and the similarity measure of the second classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cheng, Chao Yuan, Bernd Wachmann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20070123773
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for classifying tissue based on image data. A plurality of tissue parameters are extracted from image data (e.g., magnetic resonance image data) to be classified. The parameters are preprocessed, and the tissue is classified using a classification algorithm and the preprocessed parameters. In one embodiment, the parameters are preprocessed by discretization of the parameters. The classification algorithm may use a decision model for the classification of the tissue, and the decision model may be generated by performing a machine learning algorithm using preprocessed tissue parameters in a training set of data. In one embodiment, the machine learning algorithm generates a Bayesian network. The image data used may be magnetic resonance image data that was obtained before and after the intravenous administration of lymphotropic superparamagnetic nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH INC
    Inventors: Thomas Fuchs, Bernd Wachmann, Claus Neubauer, Jie Cheng
  • Publication number: 20070088509
    Abstract: Method for selecting at least one potential marker molecule indicating an user defined phenotype feature of an organic object, comprising the steps of providing genotype data of genes of a group of organic objects and phenotype data of said group of organic objects, categorizing said genotype data and said phenotype data to generate categorized data of said group of organic objects, relating statistically said phenotype feature with the generated categorized data to extract genes having a strong statistical relationship with said phenotype feature, wherein the extracted genes and proteins corresponding to said extracted genes are selected as potential marker molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jie Cheng, Mathaeus Dejori, Marin Stetter, Bernd Wachmann
  • Publication number: 20070027368
    Abstract: A method for visualization of a physiological signal, comprising the steps of acquiring a time-series signal from the physiological signal, identifying a patient condition from the time-series signal, displaying a 3D image of a body, and displaying a visual indicator representative of the patient condition on the 3D image of a body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: John Collins, Mohan Singh, Bernd Wachmann, Brad Wehrwein, Marcela de Castro Esteves
  • Publication number: 20060059112
    Abstract: A system and method for machine learning are provided, the system including a processor, an adapter for receiving instances for two different classes where each instance has a vector of feature values, a filtering unit for estimating distances between two corresponding instances of the two different classes for each of a plurality of estimators, a selection unit for calculating a corresponding p-value for each distance where the p-value is the statistical significance that the two feature vectors of the corresponding instances have different origins, and an evaluation unit for combining the different estimators by choosing the highest calculated p-value; and the method including receiving instances for two different classes, each instance having a vector of feature values, estimating distances between two corresponding instances of the two different classes for each of several of estimators, calculating a corresponding p-value for each distance, where the p-value is the statistical significance that the two f
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Jie Cheng, Bernd Wachmann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20060047616
    Abstract: A method for analyzing biological data includes classifying a first set of biological data in a first classifier, classifying a second set of biological data in a second classifier, combining the results of the first classifier with the results of the second classifier, and analyzing the results as a function of the similarity measure of the first classifier and the similarity measure of the second classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Jie Cheng, Chao Yuan, Bernd Wachmann, Claus Neubauer
  • Publication number: 20050152598
    Abstract: A method is provided for the detection of biometric characteristic data for authentication. According to the invention, the quality of the characteristic data is statically evaluated, and the statistical evaluation is used as another data set for authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Josef Birchbauer, Kurt Hechgl, Wolfgang Marius, Bernd Wachmann, Martin Winter