Patents by Inventor Ian Poole

Ian Poole 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: 20040114787
    Abstract: An image processing system is described in which sets of image elements having display values outside of a target range B of display values are each respectively morphologically dilated. The intersection between the morphologically dilated sets of image elements is then identified and those image elements within the intersecting region are removed from the set of image elements having the target range B of display values. This removes image elements incorrectly appearing to have display values corresponding to the target range B of display values due to aliasing effect between regions of image elements having display values either side of the target range B of imaging may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional imaging. The morphologically dilatation is preferably performed with a quasi-circular or a quasi-spherical structuring element having a radius of between two and three voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Pavlos Papgeorgiou, Ian Poole
  • Patent number: 6658080
    Abstract: A computer automated method for setting visualization parameter boundaries in a preset for displaying an image from a 3D data set applicable to magnetic resonance (MR) data, computer tomography (CT) data and other 3D data sets obtained in medical imaging is described. In one example the visualization parameter boundaries are color boundaries. A histogram of data values of voxels within a user-selected volume of interest (VOI) is generated and an analysis of a convex hull spanning the histogram is made to provide one or more visualization thresholds which divide the histogram into sub-regions. The sub-regions relate to different tissue types within the VOI and color boundaries are set based on the visualization thresholds for displaying the different tissue types in different colors. The method allows color boundaries in a preset to be set objectively and automatically so that images can be displayed consistently and with less user manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Voxar Limited
    Inventors: Ian Poole, Andrew John Bissell
  • Publication number: 20030170703
    Abstract: A method and/or system for making determinations regarding samples from biologic sources. A computer implemented method and/or system can be used to automate parts of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Vysis, Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware
    Inventors: James R. Piper, Ian Poole, Thomas Richard Lorch