Patents by Inventor Ella Barkan

Ella Barkan 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: 12657888
    Abstract: A processor may receive one or more datasets. The one or more datasets may include tabular data and imaging data. The processor may generate image embeddings for each of the one or more datasets. Each of the one or more datasets may include respective labels for each of the tabular data and imaging data of the one or more datasets. The processor may stratify the one or more datasets based on the respective labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Michal Flato
  • Patent number: 12327398
    Abstract: An embodiment for generating balanced train-test splits for machine learning analysis. The embodiment may automatically extract low-level features and high-level features from a series of received datasets. The embodiment may automatically determine a series of impactful features for each of the received datasets correlating to a corresponding label. The embodiment may automatically select subsets of impactful features The embodiment may automatically cluster the received datasets to generate series of clusters, each of the generated series of clusters corresponding to one of the selected subsets of impactful features. The embodiment may automatically generate train-test split versions using datasets from each cluster in each of the generated series of clusters. The embodiment may automatically score each of the generated train-test split versions and select a highest-scoring train-test split version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Ella Barkan, Tal Tlusty Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20250069376
    Abstract: A processor may receive one or more datasets. The one or more datasets may include tabular data and imaging data. The processor may generate image embeddings for each of the one or more datasets. Each of the one or more datasets may include respective labels for each of the tabular data and imaging data of the one or more datasets. The processor may stratify the one or more datasets based on the respective labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Michal Flato
  • Publication number: 20240185575
    Abstract: An embodiment for generating balanced train-test splits for machine learning analysis. The embodiment may automatically extract low-level features and high-level features from a series of received datasets. The embodiment may automatically determine a series of impactful features for each of the received datasets correlating to a corresponding label. The embodiment may automatically select subsets of impactful features The embodiment may automatically cluster the received datasets to generate series of clusters, each of the generated series of clusters corresponding to one of the selected subsets of impactful features. The embodiment may automatically generate train-test split versions using datasets from each cluster in each of the generated series of clusters. The embodiment may automatically score each of the generated train-test split versions and select a highest-scoring train-test split version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Ella Barkan, Tal Tlusty Shapiro
  • Patent number: 11709877
    Abstract: There is provided a system and a method of generating an annotated structured dataset, comprising: receiving a medical classification term, searching over the unstructured patient data for extracting unclassified unstructured text fragments, presenting a subset of the unclassified unstructured text fragments, receiving an indication of a selection of none or at least one of the text fragments, and one of: (i) classifying non-selected unclassified unstructured text fragments according to the medical classification term, and classifying selected text fragments as not satisfying the medical classification term, and (ii) classifying selected unclassified unstructured text fragments according to the medical classification term, and classifying non-selected unclassified unstructured text fragments as not satisfying the medical classification term, and iterating the searching, and/or the presenting, until no text fragments are obtained by the search, wherein the annotated structured dataset is created by the classif
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Aviad Zlotnick
  • Patent number: 11676702
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for image annotation for medical procedures. The system operates in a parallel manner. In one flow, the system starts from clinical terms and image and applies image detection module in order to get visual candidates for related radiological finding and provide them with semantic descriptors. In the second (parallel) flow, the system produces a list of prioritized semantic descriptors (with probabilities). The second flow is done by application of a reverse inference algorithm that uses clinical terms and expert clinical knowledge. The results of both flows combined by matching module for detection the best candidate and with limited user input images can be annotated. The clinical terms are extracted from clinical documents by textual analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach
  • Publication number: 20220207303
    Abstract: Grading the quality of machine learning annotations, by: Obtaining a training set comprising annotated samples that are associated with annotation metadata, wherein the annotation metadata have multiple values that are each unique across the annotation metadata. Training multiple machine learning (ML) models for a classification task, wherein the number of ML models trained equals the number of unique values of the annotation metadata, and wherein the training of each of the ML models is based on the training set, and comprises trimming the training set, to remove those of the annotated samples associated with a different one of the unique values and having a loss that exceeds a threshold. Grading the quality of the annotations per the different unique values, based on relative performance of the trained ML models, respectively. In the grading, the quality is optionally inversely correlated to the performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Dana Levanony
  • Patent number: 11195275
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques that are applicable to a variety of imaging modalities and that utilize prior knowledge of the dynamics of a physiological system to analytically generate augmented samples for machine learning. For example, in an embodiment, a method implemented in a computer comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method may comprise generating a transform for an image of tissue based on deformation of the tissue under compression, obtaining an image of tissue using an imaging modality, and generating an output image by transforming the image of the tissue using the transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Alon Hazan, Daniel Khapun, Vadim Ratner
  • Publication number: 20210225466
    Abstract: There is provided a system and a method of generating an annotated structured dataset, comprising: receiving a medical classification term, searching over the unstructured patient data for extracting unclassified unstructured text fragments, presenting a subset of the unclassified unstructured text fragments, receiving an indication of a selection of none or at least one of the text fragments, and one of: (i) classifying non-selected unclassified unstructured text fragments according to the medical classification term, and classifying selected text fragments as not satisfying the medical classification term, and (ii) classifying selected unclassified unstructured text fragments according to the medical classification term, and classifying non-selected unclassified unstructured text fragments as not satisfying the medical classification term, and iterating the searching, and/or the presenting, until no text fragments are obtained by the search, wherein the annotated structured dataset is created by the classif
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: ELLA BARKAN, AVIAD ZLOTNICK
  • Publication number: 20210183499
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for image annotation for medical procedures. The system operates in a parallel manner. In one flow, the system starts from clinical terms and image and applies image detection module in order to get visual candidates for related radiological finding and provide them with semantic descriptors. In the second (parallel) flow, the system produces a list of prioritized semantic descriptors (with probabilities). The second flow is done by application of a reverse inference algorithm that uses clinical terms and expert clinical knowledge. The results of both flows combined by matching module for detection the best candidate and with limited user input images can be annotated. The clinical terms are extracted from clinical documents by textual analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach
  • Publication number: 20210118127
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques that are applicable to a variety of imaging modalities and that utilize prior knowledge of the dynamics of a physiological system to analytically generate augmented samples for machine learning. For example, in an embodiment, a method implemented in a computer comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method may comprise generating a transform for an image of tissue based on deformation of the tissue under compression, obtaining an image of tissue using an imaging modality, and generating an output image by transforming the image of the tissue using the transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Alon Hazan, Daniel Khapun, Vadim Ratner
  • Patent number: 10916343
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for automatically receiving, using a user interface associated with the hardware processor(s), an annotation for a medical image of a patient, the medical image associated with a suspected disease of the patient and metadata of the patient. The hardware processor(s) are configured for performing a search query in real time on a database for the annotation. The hardware processor(s) are configured for receiving at least one result of the search query. The hardware processor(s) are configured for retrieving at least one other medical image comprising at least one other annotation, wherein the at least one other medical image is associated with the at least one result. The hardware processor(s) are configured for displaying, on the user interface, the at least one other medical image and the at least one other annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Alon Hazan, Vadim Ratner
  • Publication number: 20200075163
    Abstract: A diagnostic manager receives a health history of a patient and generates a plurality of probabilities corresponding to a plurality of medical conditions based on the health history of the patient. The diagnostic manager generates a first list of potential diagnostic measures and calculates respective values for respective diagnostic measures and respective costs for respective diagnostic measures in the first list of potential diagnostic measures. The diagnostic manager calculates respective scores for respective diagnostic measures in the first list of potential diagnostic measures and outputs a recommended diagnostic measure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Murray A. Reicher, Eugeniusz Walach
  • Publication number: 20190333625
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for automatically receiving, using a user interface associated with the hardware processor(s), an annotation for a medical image of a patient, the medical image associated with a suspected disease of the patient and metadata of the patient. The hardware processor(s) are configured for performing a search query in real time on a database for the annotation. The hardware processor(s) are configured for receiving at least one result of the search query. The hardware processor(s) are configured for retrieving at least one other medical image comprising at least one other annotation, wherein the at least one other medical image is associated with the at least one result. The hardware processor(s) are configured for displaying, on the user interface, the at least one other medical image and the at least one other annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Alon Hazan, Vadim Ratner
  • Patent number: 10115316
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for generating questions. The computer implemented method comprising obtaining a question, wherein the question comprises one or more elements that define an answer for the question. The method further comprising obtaining the answer. The method further comprises automatically generating, by a processor, a new question based on the question and the answer. The automatic generation comprises determining a variant of the one or more elements, wherein the variant defines the answer, wherein the new question comprises the variant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Sharbell Hashoul, Andre Heilper, Pavel Kisilev, Asaf Tzadok, Eugene Walach
  • Publication number: 20180239871
    Abstract: Processing a chief medical complaint, associated with a patient, together with current clinical data items derived from current clinical data associated with the patient to establish a baseline medical diagnosis of the patient, for each of different historical clinical data items derived from historical clinical data associated with the patient, processing the chief medical complaint together with the current clinical data items and the historical clinical data item to establish a comparison medical diagnosis of the patient, where the comparison medical diagnosis results from an diagnostic effect of the historical clinical data item on the baseline medical diagnosis, and determining the diagnostic effect of each of the historical clinical data items on the baseline medical diagnosis, and visually displaying on a visual display medium any of the historical clinical data items in accordance with a prioritization arrangement based on the diagnostic effects of the historical clinical data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Sharbell Hashoul, Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach
  • Publication number: 20180060487
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for image annotation for medical procedures. The system operates in a parallel manner. In one flow, the system starts from clinical terms and image and applies image detection module in order to get visual candidates for related radiological finding and provide them with semantic descriptors. In the second (parallel) flow, the system produces a list of prioritized semantic descriptors (with probabilities). The second flow is done by application of a reverse inference algorithm that uses clinical terms and expert clinical knowledge. The results of both flows combined by matching module for detection the best candidate and with limited user input images can be annotated. The clinical terms are extracted from clinical documents by textual analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach
  • Patent number: 9600628
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for applying a mapping function to a medical image, to generate a semantic description of a visual finding in the medical image. The mapping function is optionally an MRF (Markov random field)-based, SVM (Support Vector Machine) mapping function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach, Ella Barkan, Sharbell Hashoul
  • Publication number: 20160066891
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for image representation set creation. The computer implemented method comprises obtaining an image of a subject, wherein the image is produced using an imaging modality. The method further comprises automatically determining, by a processor, values to an image representation set with respect to the image, wherein the image representation set consists of semantic representation parameters of the image according to the imaging modality and according to a clinical diagnosis problem that is ascertainable from the image, wherein a total number of combinations of values of the semantic representation parameters is below a human comprehension threshold; and determining a decision regarding the clinical diagnosis problem based on the values of the image representation set of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Ami Ben-Horesh, Sharbell Hashoul, Andre Heilper, Pavel Kisilev, Eugene Walach
  • Publication number: 20160019812
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for generating questions. The computer implemented method comprising obtaining a question, wherein the question comprises one or more elements that define an answer for the question. The method further comprising obtaining the answer. The method further comprises automatically generating, by a processor, a new question based on the question and the answer. The automatic generation comprises determining a variant of the one or more elements, wherein the variant defines the answer, wherein the new question comprises the variant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Ella Barkan, Sharbell Hashoul, Andre Heilper, Pavel Kisilev, Asaf Tzadok, Eugene Walach