Patents by Inventor Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin
Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin 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).
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Patent number: 8630508Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: MELA Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Publication number: 20120162487Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Patent number: 8160386Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: MELA Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Patent number: 7894651Abstract: Skin characteristics are analyzed. A device acquires a digital image of an area of skin of a user. A processor quantitatively analyzes the digital image to determine a characteristic of all or part of the area of skin which is indicative of a skin condition of interest. Depending on the results of the quantitative analysis, the processor provides information to the user about the area of skin relative to the condition of interest. The information provided to the user is not necessarily sufficient for a definitive medical diagnosis and may include an indication to the user as to whether a knowledgeable person should evaluate the area of skin.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: MELA Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Joseph V. Gulfo
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Publication number: 20110019888Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Patent number: 7813586Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: MELA Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Publication number: 20090060304Abstract: Among other things, in connection with scanning a lesion on the skin of a subject, the location of the lesion on the subject is automatically determined. The scan and the location are stored on a portable memory device. And the memory device is included in a physical patient record of the subject for later use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Joseph V. Gulfo, Nikolai Kabelev, Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin
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Publication number: 20080312952Abstract: Among other things, whether a procedure can be performed on a subject using a procedure device, is governed based on control data prestored on a portable memory device; procedure data generated in connection with performing the procedure is stored on the portable memory device; the procedure data being stored in a manner that protects the privacy of the data in accordance with regulatory privacy restrictions that protect the subject with respect to the procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Joseph V. Gulfo, Nikolai Kabelev, Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Jon I. Klippel, Richard I. Steinhart
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Publication number: 20080214907Abstract: Skin characteristics are analyzed. A device acquires a digital image of an area of skin of a user. A processor quantitatively analyzes the digital image to determine a characteristic of all or part of the area of skin which is indicative of a skin condition of interest. Depending on the results of the quantitative analysis, the processor provides information to the user about the area of skin relative to the condition of interest. The information provided to the user is not necessarily sufficient for a definitive medical diagnosis and may include an indication to the user as to whether a knowledgeable person should evaluate the area of skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Joseph V. Gulfo
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Publication number: 20080031537Abstract: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude of the noise for at least some pixels of the target digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2006Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Nikolai Kabelev
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Patent number: 6307957Abstract: A light image is conveyed from a biological tissue through a flexible optical system to an image receiver, where it is converted to a form which may be entered into a computer. The computer segments the image by generating a segmentation mask defining the boundary of a region of interest in at least one spectral band, estimates at least one rotationally and translationally invariant statistical measure of coefficient distributions of the multiscale wavelet maxima representations of the digital images in at least one spectral band, characterizes the condition of the tissue based on the estimated values, and outputs the characterization of the condition of the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Electro-Optical Sciences IncInventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Marek Elbaum, Michael Greenebaum, Adam Jacobs, Alexandru Bogdan
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Patent number: 6208749Abstract: Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging of skin tissue enables automatic characterization of the condition of a region of interest of the skin, based on direct digital imaging of the region of interest or the digitization of color photographic slides of the region of interest, illuminated by appropriately filtered light. Preferably, a digital image at a low spectral band is automatically segmented and that segmented mask is used to segment the other images by a digital processor. Parameters related to the texture, asymmetry, blotchiness and border irregularities are also automatically estimated. The region of interest is automatically characterized by the digital processor, based on those parameters. The region of interest may include a skin lesion, in which case the present invention enables the characterization of the lesion as malignant or benign.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Marek Elbaum, Michael Greenebaum, Adam Jacobs
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Patent number: 6081612Abstract: Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging of skin tissue enables automatic characterization of the condition of a region of interest of the skin, based on direct digital imaging of the region of interest or the digitization of color photographic slides of the region of interest, illuminated by appropriately filtered light. Preferably, a digital image at a low spectral band is automatically segmented and that segmented mask is used to segment the other images by a digital processor. Parameters are estimated through wavelet maxima representations. Parameters related to the texture, asymmetry, blotchiness and border irregularities are also automatically estimated. The region of interest is automatically characterized by the digital processor, based on those parameters. The region of interest may include a skin lesion, in which case the present invention enables the characterization of the lesion as malignant or benign. The region of interest may also include wounds or burns.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Electro Optical Sciences Inc.Inventors: Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Marek Elbaum, Michael Greenebaum, Adam Jacobs, Alexandru Bogdan
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Patent number: 4889398Abstract: A method for self-referencing holography makes use of multiple object illuminations with different and non-uniform intensity of radiation to produce multiple holograms from the scattered radiation. Analysis of the multiple holograms provides an unambiguous image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1988Date of Patent: December 26, 1989Assignee: Riverside Research InstituteInventors: Marek Elbaum, Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin, Jerzy Nowakowski