Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Anne Morre

Elizabeth Anne Morre 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: 9256951
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic segmentation, performed by selecting a deformable model of an anatomical structure of interest imaged in a volumetric image, the deformable model formed of a plurality of polygons including vertices and edges, displaying the deformable model on a display, detecting a feature point of the anatomical structure of interest corresponding to each of the plurality of polygons and adapting the deformable model by moving each of the vertices toward the corresponding feature points until the deformable model morphs to a boundary of the anatomical structure of interest, forming a segmentation of the anatomical structure of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Lyubomir Georgiev Zagorchev, Elizabeth Anne Morre, Matthew A. Garlinghouse, Robert M. Roth, Thomas W. McAllister, Dieter Geller, Jochen Peters, Juergen Weese, Yuechen Qian
  • Publication number: 20120327075
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic segmentation, performed by selecting a deformable model of an anatomical structure of interest imaged in a volumetric image, the deformable model formed of a plurality of polygons including vertices and edges, displaying the deformable model on a display, detecting a feature point of the anatomical structure of interest corresponding to each of the plurality of polygons and adapting the deformable model by moving each of the vertices toward the corresponding feature points until the deformable model morphs to a boundary of the anatomical structure of interest, forming a segmentation of the anatomical structure of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Lyubomir Georgiev Zagorchev, Elizabeth Anne Morre, Matthew A. Garlinghouse, Robert M. Roth, Thomas W. McAllister, Reinhard Kneser, Dieter Geller, Jochen Peters, Juergen Weese, Yuechen Qian