Patents by Inventor Christine Menking Swisher

Christine Menking Swisher 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: 11957515
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods configured to generate ultrasound images based on undersampled ultrasound data. The ultrasound images may be generated by applying a neural network trained with samples of known fully sampled data and undersampled data derived from the known fully sampled data to a acquired sparsely sampled data. The training of the neural network may involve training adversarial generative network including a generator and a discriminator. The generator is trained with sets of known undersampled data until the generator is capable of generating estimated image data, which the classifier is incapable of differentiation as either real or fake, and the trained generator may then be applied to unknown undersampled data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert, Man Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11918412
    Abstract: Systems and computer implemented method of generating a simulated image of a baby based on an ultrasound image of a fetus. A method comprises acquiring an ultrasound image of the fetus, and using a machine learning model to generate the simulated image of the baby, based on the ultrasound image of the fetus, wherein the simulated image of the baby comprises a prediction of how the fetus will look as a baby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Claudia Errico
  • Publication number: 20240071110
    Abstract: A method (100) for generating a textual description of a medical image, comprising: receiving (130) a medical image of an anatomical region, the image comprising one or more abnormalities; segmenting (140) the anatomical region in the received medical image from a remainder of the image; identifying (150) at least one of the one or more abnormalities in the segmented anatomical region; extracting (160) one or more features from the identified abnormality; generating (170), using the extracted features and a trained text generation model, a textual description of the identified abnormality; and reporting (180), via a user interface of the system, the generated textual description of the identified abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christine Menking SWISHER, Sheikh Sadid AL HASAN, Jonathan RUBIN, Cristhian Mauricio POTES BLANDON, Yuan LING, Oladimeji Feyisetan FARRI, Rithesh SREENIVASAN
  • Patent number: 11836997
    Abstract: A method (100) for generating a textual description of a medical image, comprising: receiving (130) a medical image of an anatomical region, the image comprising one or more abnormalities; segmenting (140) the anatomical region in the received medical image from a remainder of the image; identifying (150) at least one of the one or more abnormalities in the segmented anatomical region; extracting (160) one or more features from the identified abnormality; generating (170), using the extracted features and a trained text generation model, a textual description of the identified abnormality; and reporting (180), via a user interface of the system, the generated textual description of the identified abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Jonathan Rubin, Cristhian Mauricio Potes Blandon, Yuan Ling, Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Rithesh Sreenivasan
  • Patent number: 11826201
    Abstract: Clinical assessment devices, systems, and methods are provided. A clinical assessment system, comprising a processor in communication with an imaging device, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the imaging device, a sequence of image frames representative of a contrast agent perfused subjects tissue across a time period; classify the sequence of image frames into a plurality of first tissue classes and a plurality of second tissue classes based on a spatiotemporal correlation among the sequence of image frames by applying a predictive network to the sequence of image frames to produce a probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes; and output, to a display in communication with the processor, the probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Claudia Errico, Christine Menking Swisher, Hua Xie
  • Patent number: 11783165
    Abstract: The invention discloses an apparatus for converting data and for assessing data. The apparatus comprises a processor. For converting data, the processor is configured to train a neural network arrangement to generate a first vector to represent input data, each element of the first vector representing a defined feature of the input data. For assessing data, the processor is configured to provide a neural network trained to generate a first vector representing input data; provide input data to the trained neural network; and generate, using the trained neural network, a first vector representing the input data, wherein each element of the generated first vector represents a defined feature of the input data. Methods and a computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Christine Menking Swisher
  • Patent number: 11537920
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting false alarms. Methods and systems described herein may receive data associated with an alarm signal using an interface, extract at least one artifact feature from the received data, and then receive a classification of the alarm signal as a true positive or false positive based on the at least one extracted artifact feature. The classifier may be configured to execute an ensemble of decision trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Preetish Rath, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon
  • Patent number: 11406255
    Abstract: A imaging system includes a camera, a display and a processor. The camera has color video acquisition capability, and is mounted to a distal end of an interventional instrument insertable within an object, the camera providing image frames for imaging vasculature of the object, each image frame including multiple pixels providing corresponding signals, respectively. The processor is programmed to receive the signals; amplify variations in at least one of color and motion of the signals corresponding to the multiple pixels; determine spatial phase variability, frequency and signal characteristics of at least some of the amplified signals corresponding to the multiple pixels, respectively; identify pixels indicative of abnormal vascularity based on the spatial phase variability, frequency and/or signal characteristics; create a vascular map corresponding to each, where each vascularity map includes a portion of the object having the abnormal vascularity; and operate the display to display each vascularity map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Christine Menking Swisher
  • Publication number: 20220036055
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to identifying individuals in digital images. In some embodiments, a digital image(s) that captures a scene containing one or more people may be acquired. The single digital image may be applied as input across a single machine learning model. In some implementations, the single machine learning model may be trained to perform a non-facial feature recognition task and a face-related recognition task. Output may be generated over the single machine learning model based on the input. The output may include first data indicative of non-facial features of a given person of the one or more people and second data indicative of at least a location of a face of the given person in the digital image relative to the non-facial features. In various embodiments, the given person may be identified based at least in part on the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christine Menking SWISHER, Asif RAHMAN
  • Publication number: 20210391046
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method and system for automatically generating a medical document during a medical visit in a controlled environment, the method including the steps of monitoring, by a network monitoring module, a network to capture use of medical equipment connected to the network, detecting, by an atomic action video recognition module, predefined atomic actions in the controlled environment, extracting, by a patient-medical provider conversation recognition module, clinical information from a conversation between a patient and a medical provider, matching, by a visit graph generation module, the use of medical equipment and the predefined atomic actions to an atomic actions and CPT codes database of known uses of medical equipment and predefined atomic actions, generating, by the visit graph generation module, an event graph based on the use of medical equipment, the predefined atomic actions and the extracted clinical information and translating, by a medical document generator, the event
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Mladen MILOSEVIC, Daniel Jason SCHULMAN, Christine Menking SWISHER
  • Publication number: 20210383667
    Abstract: A method of detecting decline in activities of daily living (ADLs) over time, the method including gathering a plurality of image data of a subject over a period of time, preprocessing the image data to obtain a plurality of standardized images, segmenting out a feature from each of the image data, providing the segmented features to a trained model to identify possible changes in the features over time, classifying the possible changes as evidence, and using the evidence to calculate a risk score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Jason SCHULMAN, Christine Menking SWISHER
  • Patent number: 11157726
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to identifying individuals in digital images. In some embodiments, a digital image(s) that captures a scene containing one or more people may be acquired. The single digital image may be applied as input across a single machine learning model. In some implementations, the single machine learning model may be trained to perform a non-facial feature recognition task and a face-related recognition task. Output may be generated over the single machine learning model based on the input. The output may include first data indicative of non-facial features of a given person of the one or more people and second data indicative of at least a location of a face of the given person in the digital image relative to the non-facial features. In various embodiments, the given person may be identified based at least in part on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJIKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Asif Rahman
  • Publication number: 20210327563
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a salient medical imaging controller (80) employing an artificial intelligence engine (40) and a graphical user interface (70). In operation, the artificial intelligence engine (40) includes one or more machine learning models (42) trained to render a feature assessment of a medical image. The graphical user interface (70) provides a user interaction with the artificial intelligence engine (40) to manipulate a salient visualization of the feature assessment of the medical image by the machine learning model(s) (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Ze He, Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Christine Menking Swisher
  • Publication number: 20210241884
    Abstract: A method (100) for generating a textual description of a medical image, comprising: receiving (130) a medical image of an anatomical region, the image comprising one or more abnormalities; segmenting (140) the anatomical region in the received medical image from a remainder of the image; identifying (150) at least one of the one or more abnormalities in the segmented anatomical region; extracting (160) one or more features from the identified abnormality; generating (170), using the extracted features and a trained text generation model, a textual description of the identified abnormality; and reporting (180), via a user interface of the system, the generated textual description of the identified abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Jonathan Rubin, Cristhian Mauricio Potes Blandon, Yuan Ling, Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Rithesh Sreenivasan
  • Publication number: 20210192270
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to identifying individuals in digital images. In some embodiments, a digital image may be acquired (802) that captures an environment containing at least a first subject. A first portion of the digital image depicting the first subject may be segmented (806) into a plurality of superpixels. For each superpixel of the plurality of superpixels: a semantic label may be assigned (810) to the superpixel; features of the superpixel may be extracted (812); and a measure of similarity between the features extracted from the superpixel and features extracted from a reference superpixel identified in a reference digital image may be determined (814), wherein the reference superpixel has a reference semantic label that matches the semantic label assigned to the superpixel. Based on the measures of similarity associated with the plurality of superpixels, it may be determined (818) that the first subject is depicted in the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: CHRISTINE MENKING SWISHER, PURNIMA RAJAN, ASIF RAHMAN, BRYAN CONROY
  • Publication number: 20210177373
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods for ultrasonically inspecting biological tissue, such as liver and for automatically identifying and acquiring a view suitable for hepatic-renal echo-intensity ratio quantification, using one or more neural networks, which may be trained to perform image classification, segmentation, or a combination thereof to compute a confidence metric and to provide a recommendation for measurement ROIs placement on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: HUA XIE, CHRISTINE MENKING SWISHER, CLAUDIA ERRICO, VIJAY THAKUR SHAMDASANI, YINHUI DENG
  • Publication number: 20210174937
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a raw diagnostic machine for a medical diagnosis of raw medical imaging data generated by a medical imaging machine as opposed to a medical diagnosis of a medical image conventionally reconstructed from the raw medical imaging data. In operation, the raw diagnostic engine includes a medical imaging diagnostic controller implementing a dimension reduction pre-processor for selecting or extracting one or more dimension reduced feature vectors from the raw medical imaging data, and further implementing a raw diagnostic artificial intelligence engine for rendering a diagnostic assessment of the raw medical imaging data as represented by the dimension reduced feature vector(s). The medical imaging diagnostic controller may further control a communication of the diagnostic assessment of the raw medical imaging data (e.g., a display, a printing, an emailing, a texting, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Christine Menking SWISHER, Homer PIEN
  • Publication number: 20210113190
    Abstract: Clinical assessment devices, systems, and methods are provided. A clinical assessment system, comprising a processor in communication with an imaging device, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the imaging device, a sequence of image frames representative of a contrast agent perfused subjects tissue across a time period; classify the sequence of image frames into a plurality of first tissue classes and a plurality of second tissue classes based on a spatiotemporal correlation among the sequence of image frames by applying a predictive network to the sequence of image frames to produce a probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes; and output, to a display in communication with the processor, the probability distribution for the plurality of first tissue classes and the plurality of second tissue classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: CLAUDIA ERRICO, CHRISTINE MENKING SWISHER, HUA XIE
  • Publication number: 20210077063
    Abstract: Systems and computer implemented method of generating a simulated image of a baby based on an ultrasound image of a fetus. A method comprises acquiring an ultrasound image of the fetus, and using a machine learning model to generate the simulated image of the baby, based on the ultrasound image of the fetus, wherein the simulated image of the baby comprises a prediction of how the fetus will look as a baby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Claudia Errico
  • Publication number: 20210027878
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a preferences database (16); instructions readable and executable by at least one electronic processor (20) to perform a proposed radiation treatment plan review process (100), including: via a reviewing graphical user interface (GUI) (28), presenting a proposed radiation treatment plan to a reviewer; via the reviewing GUI, receiving one of (i) an acceptance of the proposed radiation treatment plan or (ii) a rejection of the proposed radiation treatment plan in combination with annotations of the rejected proposed radiation treatment plan from the reviewer; and updating radiation treatment plan preferences of the reviewer stored in the preferences database based on the acceptance of the proposed radiation treatment plan or based on the annotations of the rejected proposed radiation treatment plan; and instructions readable and executable by at least one electronic processor (32) to perform a radiation treatment planning process (200) including: optimizing radia
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Ze HE, Kevin LYONS, Gajendra Jung KATUWAL, Christine Menking SWISHER