Patents by Inventor Donald Louis COLLINS

Donald Louis COLLINS 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: 11928827
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Donald Louis Collins, Pierrick Coupe
  • Publication number: 20220215563
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Donald Louis COLLINS, Pierrick COUPE
  • Patent number: 11335015
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Donald Louis Collins, Pierrick Coupe, Jose Vicente Manjon Herrera
  • Patent number: 11276500
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing brain structural characteristics for predicting a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder are disclosed. One method for utilizing brain structural characteristics for predicting a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder includes receiving brain imaging data for a human subject of at least one first age. The method also includes determining, from the brain imaging data, measurements of brain structural characteristics of the human subject and inputting the brain structural characteristics into a model that predicts, using the measurements of the brain structural characteristics, a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder at a second age greater than the at least one first age.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Martin Andreas Styner, Sun Hyung Kim, Donald Louis Collins, Vladimir S. Fonov, Brent Carl Munsell, Joseph Piven, Heather Cody Hazlett
  • Publication number: 20200273186
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Donald Louis COLLINS, Pierrick COUPE, Jose Vicente MANJON HERRERA
  • Publication number: 20190148021
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing brain structural characteristics for predicting a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder are disclosed. One method for utilizing brain structural characteristics for predicting a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder includes receiving brain imaging data for a human subject of at least one first age. The method also includes determining, from the brain imaging data, measurements of brain structural characteristics of the human subject and inputting the brain structural characteristics into a model that predicts, using the measurements of the brain structural characteristics, a diagnosis of a neurobehavioral disorder at a second age greater than the at least one first age.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Martin Andreas Styner, Sun Hyung Kim, Donald Louis Collins, Vladimir S. Fonov, Brent Carl Munsell, Joseph Piven, Heather Cody Hazlett
  • Publication number: 20180068454
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Donald Louis COLLINS, Pierrick COUPE, Jose Vicente MANJON HERRERA