Patents by Inventor Hadonahalli V. Ramprakash

Hadonahalli V. Ramprakash 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).

  • Thermography-based breast cancer screening using a measure of symmetry
    Patent number: 10307141
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for breast cancer screening which determines whether hot spots, as seen in a thermal image of both breasts, can be classified as possibly malignant based on a measure of symmetry. A thermographic image of both breasts of a patient is received and analyzed to determine whether there exists, in each of a left breast and a right breast, a hot spot comprising a patch of pixels with an elevated temperature with respect to surrounding tissue. If a hot spot has been identified in each breast then a measure of symmetry comprising a ratio of an area of a smaller hot spot to an area of a larger hot spot is extracted from the thermographic image. The measure of symmetry is provided to a classifier system trained to classify an unclassified hot spot as malignant or non-malignant based on a measure of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventors: Krithika Venkataramani, Susmija Jabbireddy, Himanshu J. Madhu, Siva Teja Kakileti, Hadonahalli V. Ramprakash
  • THERMOGRAPHY-BASED BREAST CANCER SCREENING USING A MEASURE OF SYMMETRY
    Publication number: 20180000461
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for breast cancer screening which determines whether hot spots, as seen in a thermal image of both breasts, can be classified as possibly malignant based on a measure of symmetry. A thermographic image of both breasts of a patient is received and analyzed to determine whether there exists, in each of a left breast and a right breast, a hot spot comprising a patch of pixels with an elevated temperature with respect to surrounding tissue. If a hot spot has been identified in each breast then a measure of symmetry comprising a ratio of an area of a smaller hot spot to an area of a larger hot spot is extracted from the thermographic image. The measure of symmetry is provided to a classifier system trained to classify an unclassified hot spot as malignant or non-malignant based on a measure of symmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Krithika Venkataramani, Susmija Jabbireddy, Himanshu J. Madhu, Siva Teja Kakileti, Hadonahalli V. Ramprakash