Patents by Inventor Lester Kwock

Lester Kwock 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).

  • Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mapping regions in a model of an object comprising an anatomical structure from one image data set to images used in a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention
    Patent number: 8666128
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mapping a model of an object comprising an anatomical structure in a planning image and an intervention target region within it to intervention-guiding image data are disclosed. According to one method, an initial medial representation object model (m-rep) of an object comprising an anatomical structure is created based on image data of at least a first instance of the object. A patient-specific m-rep is created by deforming the initial m-rep based on planning image data of at least a second instance of the object, wherein the at least second instance of the object is associated with the patient. An intervention target region within the m-rep is identified in an image registered with the planning image. The patient-specific m-rep is correlated to the intervention-guiding image data of the at least second instance of the object, deformed from the planning image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Edward L. Chaney, Stephen Pizer, Lester Kwock, Eric Wallen, William Hyslop, Robert Broadhurst
  • METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MAPPING REGIONS IN A MODEL OF AN OBJECT COMPRISING AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE FROM ONE IMAGE DATA SET TO IMAGES USED IN A DIAGNOSTIC OR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION
    Publication number: 20120027278
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mapping a model of an object comprising an anatomical structure in a planning image and an intervention target region within it to intervention-guiding image data are disclosed. According to one method, an initial medial representation object model (m-rep) of an object comprising an anatomical structure is created based on image data of at least a first instance of the object. A patient-specific m-rep is created by deforming the initial m-rep based on planning image data of at least a second instance of the object, wherein the at least second instance of the object is associated with the patient. An intervention target region within the m-rep is identified in an image registered with the planning image. The patient-specific m-rep is correlated to the intervention-guiding image data of the at least second instance of the object, deformed from the planning image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Edward L. Chaney, Stephen Pizer, Lester Kwock, Eric Wallen, William Hyslop, Robert Broadhurst