Patents by Inventor Ian Pole

Ian Pole 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).

  • Publication number: 20110158491
    Abstract: A method and system for acquiring information on lesions in dynamic 3D medical images of a body region and/or organ, having the steps: applying a registration technique to align a plurality of volumetric image data of the body region and/or organ, yielding multi-phase registered volumetric image data of the body region and/or organ; applying a hierarchical segmentation on the multi-phase registered volumetric image data of the body region and/or organ, the segmentation yielding a plurality of clusters of n-dimensional voxel vectors of the multi-phase aligned volumetric image; determining from the plurality of clusters a cluster or set of clusters delineating the body and/or organ; identifying the connected region(s) of voxel vectors belonging to the body region and/or organ; refining/filling the connected region(s) corresponding to the body region and/or organ; reapplying the segmentation step to the refined/filled connected region(s) corresponding to the body region and/or organ, to obtain a more accurate se
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Aneta Markova, Rudi Deklerck, Johan Demey, Peter Clerinx, Ian Pole, Piet Dewaele