Patents by Inventor Metin N. Gurcan

Metin N. Gurcan 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: 10504624
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automated monitoring of the size, area or boundary of chronic wound images. The disclosure includes use of a probability map that measures the likelihood of wound pixels belonging to granulation, slough or eschar, which can then be segmented using any standard segmentation techniques. Measurement of the wound size, area or boundary occurs automatically and without user input related to outlining, filling in, or making measurement lines over the image on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Metin N. Gurcan, Chandan K. Sen, Gayle Gordillo
  • Publication number: 20180226154
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automated monitoring of the size, area or boundary of chronic wound images. The disclosure includes use of a probability map that measures the likelihood of wound pixels belonging to granulation, slough or eschar, which can then be segmented using any standard segmentation techniques. Measurement of the wound size, area or boundary occurs automatically and without user input related to outlining, filling in, or making measurement lines over the image on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Metin N. Gurcan, Chandan K. Sen, Gayle Gordillo
  • Patent number: 9990472
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automated monitoring of the size, area or boundary of chronic wound images. The disclosure includes use of a probability map that measures the likelihood of wound pixels belonging to granulation, slough or eschar, which can then be segmented using any standard segmentation techniques. Measurement of the wound size, area or boundary occurs automatically and without user input related to outlining, filling in, or making measurement lines over the image on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Metin N. Gurcan, Chandan K. Sen, Gayle Gordillo
  • Publication number: 20160284084
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for automated monitoring of the size, area or boundary of chronic wound images. The disclosure includes use of a probability map that measures the likelihood of wound pixels belonging to granulation, slough or eschar, which can then be segmented using any standard segmentation techniques. Measurement of the wound size, area or boundary occurs automatically and without user input related to outlining, filling in, or making measurement lines over the image on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Metin N. Gurcan, Chandan K. Sen, Gayle Gordillo
  • Patent number: 7486812
    Abstract: A method for refining shape estimates of detected abnormalities in medical images, particularly for the detection of pulmonary lesions in CT imagery is described. A cue point is refined prior to an initially segmentation of the lesion. A radial gradient is computed for points on an initial segmented lesion. Portions of the lesion with radial gradients deviating beyond a threshold angle are removed from the lesion. Registering imagery from more than one CT exam uses a high intensity structure, essentially bone, to provide coarse and fine alignment of a set of two-dimensional images is also described. A MIP image is formed from the three-dimensional images. A second MIP image is then formed from imagery. The second MIP image is correlated with the first MIP image to determine a preferred registration location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: iCAD, Inc.
    Inventors: Metin N. Gurcan, Russell C. Hardie, Steven K. Rogers
  • Patent number: 7236620
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for detecting abnormalities in medical images, particularly for the detection of polyps in the colon from computed tomography imagery. Specifically a set of colon masks is input to a detector where summations over spherical volumes with two different radii are computed. Abnormalities are detected based on the ratio of spherical summation values computed for every pixel location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: ICAD, Inc.
    Inventor: Metin N. Gurcan