Patents by Inventor Bert Verdonck

Bert Verdonck 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: 20080177575
    Abstract: A data structure (311) includes one or more of image data (312), presentation data (314), and application software (316). The application software (316) includes functionality which allows a user to view or otherwise manipulate the image data (312). The application software (316) also presents the image data (312) in accordance with the presentation data (314). A user may provide the data structure (311) to one or more recipients, for example over a PACS system (210) or other computer network (106). The data structure (311) is generated by data set generation software (310) based on input parameters (302) such as application information (304), annotation information (305) presentation information (306), data set information (308), and access information (309).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Stewart Higgins, Bert Verdonck
  • Publication number: 20060056675
    Abstract: A method of producing an improved straightened reformat is presented in which cross sections are calculated perpendicular to an elongate subject described within an object data set, a reference direction-is-determined in each cross sectional slice and a new object data set is created by concatenating the cross sectional slices, each cross sectional slice orientated so that the reference directions in the cross sectional slices are aligned. Various methods are presented by which the reference direction is determined within each cross sectional slice, including propagation from an original reference direction and optimization using determined reference directions as boundary conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Bert Verdonck
  • Publication number: 20050192495
    Abstract: A medical examination apparatus including an imaging means (2,3), a viewing system (4), wherein image data processing means (5) is arranged to facilitate production of different images of a feature of interest such that the pose of the feature is comparable in the different images. The image data processing means (5) estimates the pose of the anatomical feature in a first image generated by the imaging means, produces imaging means control data indicative of the desired imaging geometry for controlling one or more parameters of the imaging means (2,3) for producing a further image having the feature of interest in the estimated pose, and outputs the produced imaging means control data. The output control data may be output in a viewable form and/or output directly to the imaging means (2,3) so as automatically to control the parameters thereof. The output control data can also control the imaging means so as to produce an image having desired intensity characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Sherif Makram-Ebeid, Pierre LeLong, Bert Verdonck, Jean-Pierre Franciscus Ermes
  • Publication number: 20050025347
    Abstract: A medical viewing system including an imaging means (2,3) and image data processing means (5) is arranged to facilitate production of different images of a feature of interest such that the pose of the feature of interest is comparable in the different images. The image data processing means (5) estimates the pose of the feature of interest in a second image relative to the pose thereof in a first image, typically generated at a different time, and applies an affine transformation, for example to the second image, so as to produce a transformed second image in which the feature of interest has substantially the same pose as in the first image. The image data may also be processed so as to normalize the intensity characteristics of the images to be compared. Gross differences in pose can be eliminated by processing the image data so as to generate control data indicating how to set up the imaging apparatus to produce an image having the feature of interest oriented substantially in a desired pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Sherif Makram-Ebeid, Pierre Lelong, Bert Verdonck, Jean-Pierre Franciscus Ermes