Patents by Inventor Mark Peter Feilen

Mark Peter Feilen 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).

  • Flash artifact suppression in two-dimensional ultrasound imaging
    Patent number: 6760486
    Abstract: Flash artifacts in ultrasound flow images are suppressed to achieve enhanced flow discrimination. Flash artifacts typically occur as regions of elevated signal strength (brightness or equivalent color) within an image. A flash suppression algorithm includes the steps of estimating the flash within an image and then suppressing the estimated flash. The mechanism for flash suppression is spatial filtering. An extension of this basic method uses information from adjacent frames to estimate the flash and/or to smooth the resulting image sequence. Temporal information from adjacent frames is used as an adjunct to improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Richard Yung Chiao, Gregory Ray Bashford, Mark Peter Feilen, Cynthia Andrews Owen