Patents by Inventor Jaime E. TIERNEY

Jaime E. TIERNEY 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).

  • Advanced ultrasound imaging techniques for kidney stone detection and characterization
    Patent number: 11813110
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for detecting and sizing mineralized tissue. An exemplary method, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, can provide for imaging a region of interest containing the mineralized tissue with unfocused ultrasound beams via a primary imaging method. The method can then provide for computing a wavefront coherence at the imaged region of interest. The method can then provide for segmenting pixels of the imaged region of interest based on their intensities and intensities of surrounding pixels. The method can then provide for identifying a border and a shadow of the mineralized tissue based on the segmenting. Then, the method can provide for calculating a size of the mineralized tissue based on the border and the shadow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Brett C. Byram, Ryan S. Hsi, Jaime E. Tierney
  • ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR KIDNEY STONE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION
    Publication number: 20190365345
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for detecting and sizing mineralized tissue. An exemplary method, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, can provide for imaging a region of interest containing the mineralized tissue with unfocused ultrasound beams via a primary imaging method. The method can then provide for computing a wavefront coherence at the imaged region of interest. The method can then provide for segmenting pixels of the imaged region of interest based on their intensities and intensities of surrounding pixels. The method can then provide for identifying a border and a shadow of the mineralized tissue based on the segmenting. Then, the method can provide for calculating a size of the mineralized tissue based on the border and the shadow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Brett C. BYRAM, Ryan S. HSI, Jaime E. TIERNEY