Patents by Inventor Kjetil Viggen

Kjetil Viggen 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: 10675005
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing caliper measurements in a multi-frame 2D image and an anatomical M-mode image is provided. The method may include selecting a frame of a multi-frame 2D image of a region of interest. The method may include positioning a first caliper measurement on the selected frame. The method may include generating an anatomical M-mode image based on a direction of the first caliper measurement. The method may include automatically overlaying a second caliper measurement on the anatomical M-mode image, the second caliper measurement corresponding with the first caliper measurement on the selected frame. The method may include presenting the selected frame having the first caliper measurement simultaneously with the anatomical motion mode image having the second caliper measurement at a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Kjetil Viggen
  • Publication number: 20200037997
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing caliper measurements in a multi-frame 2D image and an anatomical M-mode image is provided. The method may include selecting a frame of a multi-frame 2D image of a region of interest. The method may include positioning a first caliper measurement on the selected frame. The method may include generating an anatomical M-mode image based on a direction of the first caliper measurement. The method may include automatically overlaying a second caliper measurement on the anatomical M-mode image, the second caliper measurement corresponding with the first caliper measurement on the selected frame. The method may include presenting the selected frame having the first caliper measurement simultaneously with the anatomical motion mode image having the second caliper measurement at a display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Kjetil Viggen
  • Publication number: 20190076127
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically selecting ultrasound image loops from a continuously captured stress echocardiogram is provided. The method may include continuously capturing ultrasound image data of a heart. The method may include separating the continuously captured ultrasound image data into image loops. Each of the image loops may have a predetermined number of heart cycles. The method may include automatically assigning an image view type from to at least a portion of the image loops. The method may include automatically assigning an image characteristic metric to each of the image loops having the assigned image view type. The method may include automatically presenting, at a display system, an image loop for each of the image view types based on the image characteristic metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Svein Arne Aase, Kjetil Viggen, Andreas Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20180344292
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for automatically analyzing a displayed Doppler spectrum, acquired with an ultrasound system, containing multiple heart cycles of data. As one example, a method may include automatically tracing a spectrum displayed via a user interface of an ultrasound system, the spectrum including data from a plurality of cycles acquired with the ultrasound system; displaying measurement parameters and measurement graphics for the traced spectrum; and automatically updating the displayed measurement parameters for a selected number of cycles out of the plurality of cycles to include in the traced spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kjetil Viggen, Elina Sokulin
  • Patent number: 7606402
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes image acquisition circuitry, a memory, and a processor coupled to the image acquisition circuitry and memory. The processor executes a physiologic marker program out of the memory. The marker program obtains physiologic marker definitions for events shown in a first dataset image, determines physiologic markers associated with the marker definitions, and superimposes the physiologic markers on a second dataset image that does not necessarily show the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Heimdal, Kjetil Viggen
  • Publication number: 20040249259
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes image acquisition circuitry, a memory, and a processor coupled to the image acquisition circuitry and memory. The processor executes a physiologic marker program out of the memory. The marker program obtains physiologic marker definitions for events shown in a first dataset image, determines physiologic markers associated with the marker definitions, and superimposes the physiologic markers on a second dataset image that does not necessarily show the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Andreas Heimdal, Kjetil Viggen
  • Patent number: 6537217
    Abstract: A method is provided to simultaneously acquire two ultrasound images. A first set of ultrasound pulses are transmitted at a first frame rate utilizing a first mode of operation. The echoes from the first set of ultrasound pulses are received. A second set of ultrasound pulses are transmitted at a second frame rate utilizing a second mode of operation. The first and second frame rates are different. The first set of ultrasound pulses defines an entire image, while the second set of ultrasound pulses defines a partial image. The echoes from the second set of ultrasound pulses are received, and the echoes from the first and second sets of ultrasound pulses are displayed as a single image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steinar Bjærum, Johan Kirkhorn, Hans Garmann Torp, Kjetil Viggen, Bjórn Olstad, Kjell Kristoffersen, Erik N. Steen, Dagfinn Saetre
  • Publication number: 20030045795
    Abstract: A method is provided to simultaneously acquire two ultrasound images. A first set of ultrasound pulses are transmitted at a first frame rate utilizing a first mode of operation. The echoes from the first set of ultrasound pulses are received. A second set of ultrasound pulses are transmitted at a second frame rate utilizing a second mode of operation. The first and second frame rates are different. The first set of ultrasound pulses defines an entire image, while the second set of ultrasound pulses defines a partial image. The echoes from the second set of ultrasound pulses are received, and the echoes from the first and second sets of ultrasound pulses are displayed as a single image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Steinar Bjaerum, Johan Kirkhorn, Hans Garmann Torp, Kjetil Viggen, Bjorn Olstad, Kjell Kristoffersen, Erik N. Steen, Dagfinn Saetre