Patents by Inventor Christopher E. Hafey

Christopher E. Hafey 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).

  • User interface for providing clinical applications and associated data sets based on image data
    Patent number: 9037988
    Abstract: A user interface for selecting clinical applications in a medical imaging system is provided on a display and is responsive to user inputs in the medical imaging system. A request to view a study that includes a plurality of images is received. The study to be viewed is then acquired from a medical imaging system database. The acquired study is analyzed with a rule engine that executes rules on image data from the acquired study. The rule engine identifies one or more clinical applications that are appropriate for the study and identifies at least one data set from the plurality of images suited for each of the identified one or more clinical applications. One or more icons each associated with one of the identified one or more clinical applications are displayed. The one or more icons are each selectable on the user interface to initialize the associated clinical application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Vital Images, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Hafey, Todd B. Johnson, Brian Diaz, Kelly Dupasquier
  • USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND ASSOCIATED DATA SETS BASED ON IMAGE DATA
    Publication number: 20120284657
    Abstract: A user interface for selecting clinical applications in a medical imaging system is provided on a display and is responsive to user inputs in the medical imaging system. A request to view a study that includes a plurality of images is received. The study to be viewed is then acquired from a medical imaging system database. The acquired study is analyzed with a rule engine that executes rules on image data from the acquired study. The rule engine identifies one or more clinical applications that are appropriate for the study and identifies at least one data set from the plurality of images suited for each of the identified one or more clinical applications. One or more icons each associated with one of the identified one or more clinical applications are displayed. The one or more icons are each selectable on the user interface to initialize the associated clinical application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: VITAL IMAGES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Hafey, Todd B. Johnson, Brian Diaz, Kelly Dupasquier