Patents by Inventor Olaf Ronneberger

Olaf Ronneberger 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: 11954902
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise
  • Publication number: 20230395186
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a structure prediction neural network that comprises an embedding neural network and a main folding neural network. According to one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a training network input characterizing a training protein; processing the training network input using the embedding neural network and the main folding neural network to generate a main structure prediction; for each auxiliary folding neural network in a set of one or more auxiliary folding neural networks, processing at least a corresponding intermediate output of the embedding neural network to generate an auxiliary structure prediction; determining a gradient of an objective function that includes a respective auxiliary structure loss term for each of the auxiliary folding neural networks; and updating the current values of the embedding network parameters and the main folding parameters based on the gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Simon Kohl, Olaf Ronneberger, Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel
  • Publication number: 20230298687
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting a structure of a protein comprising one or more chains. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining an initial multiple sequence alignment (MSA) representation; obtaining a respective initial pair embedding for each pair of amino acids in the protein; processing an input comprising the initial MSA representation and the initial pair embeddings using an embedding neural network to generate an output that comprises a final MSA representation and a respective final pair embedding for each pair of amino acids in the protein; and determining a predicted structure of the protein using the final MSA representation, the final pair embeddings, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Mikhail Figurnov, Alexander Pritzel, Richard Andrew Evans, Russell James Bates, Olaf Ronneberger, Simon Kohl, John Jumper
  • Patent number: 11676281
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for segmenting a medical image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a medical image that is captured using a medical imaging modality and that depicts a region of tissue in a body; and processing the medical image using a segmentation neural network to generate a segmentation output. The segmentation neural network can include a sequence of multiple encoder blocks and a decoder subnetwork. Training the segmentation neural network can include determining a set of error values for a segmentation channel; identifying the highest error values from the set of error values for the segmentation channel; and determining a segmentation loss based on the highest error values identified for the segmentation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stanislav Nikolov, Samuel Blackwell, Jeffrey De Fauw, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Clemens Ludwig Meyer, Harry Askham, Cian Hughes, Trevor Back, Joseph R. Ledsam, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Publication number: 20230107505
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network to (i) generate accurate network outputs for a machine learning task and (ii) generate intermediate outputs that can be used to reliably classify out-of-distribution inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Bunel, Jim Huibrecht Winkens, Abhijit Guha Roy, Olaf Ronneberger, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Ali Taylan Cemgil, Simon Kohl
  • Publication number: 20220415453
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of images of a macromolecule having a plurality of atoms, training a decoder neural network on the plurality of images, and after the training, generating a plurality of conformations for at least a portion of the macromolecule that each include respective three-dimensional coordinates of each of the plurality of atoms, wherein generating each conformation includes sampling a conformation latent representation from a prior distribution over conformation latent representations, processing a respective input including the sampled conformation latent representation using the decoder neural network to generate a conformation output that specifies three-dimensional coordinates of each of the plurality of atoms for the conformation, and generating the conformation from the conformation output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Olaf Ronneberger, Marta Garnelo Abellanas, Dan Rosenbaum, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Jonas Anders Adler
  • Patent number: 11430123
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a plurality of possible segmentations of an image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request to generate a plurality of possible segmentations of an image; sampling a plurality of latent variables from a latent space, wherein each latent variable is sampled from the latent space in accordance with a respective probability distribution over the latent space that is determined based on the image; generating a plurality of possible segmentations of the image, comprising, for each latent variable, processing the image and the latent variable using a segmentation neural network having a plurality of segmentation neural network parameters to generate the possible segmentation of the image; and providing the plurality of possible segmentations of the image in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Simon Kohl, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Pushmeet Kohli, Andrew Zisserman, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Publication number: 20220012891
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for segmenting a medical image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a medical image that is captured using a medical imaging modality and that depicts a region of tissue in a body; and processing the medical image using a segmentation neural network to generate a segmentation output, wherein the segmentation neural network comprises a sequence of multiple encoder blocks, wherein: each encoder block is a residual neural network block comprising one or more two-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, one or more three-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, or both, and each encoder block is configured to process a respective encoder block input to generate a respective encoder block output wherein a spatial resolution of the encoder block output is lower than a spatial resolution of the encoder block input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Stanislav Nikolov, Samuel Blackwell, Jeffrey De Fauw, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Clemens Ludwig Meyer, Harry Askham, Cian Hughes, Trevor Back, Joseph R. Ledsam, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Patent number: 11100647
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for segmenting a medical image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a medical image that is captured using a medical imaging modality and that depicts a region of tissue in a body; and processing the medical image using a segmentation neural network to generate a segmentation output, wherein the segmentation neural network comprises a sequence of multiple encoder blocks, wherein: each encoder block is a residual neural network block comprising one or more two-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, one or more three-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, or both, and each encoder block is configured to process a respective encoder block input to generate a respective encoder block output wherein a spatial resolution of the encoder block output is lower than a spatial resolution of the encoder block input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stanislav Nikolov, Samuel Blackwell, Jeffrey De Fauw, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Clemens Ludwig Meyer, Harry Askham, Cian Hughes, Trevor Back, Joseph R. Ledsam, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Publication number: 20210118198
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise
  • Patent number: 10878601
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise
  • Publication number: 20200372654
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a plurality of possible segmentations of an image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request to generate a plurality of possible segmentations of an image; sampling a plurality of latent variables from a latent space, wherein each latent variable is sampled from the latent space in accordance with a respective probability distribution over the latent space that is determined based on the image; generating a plurality of possible segmentations of the image, comprising, for each latent variable, processing the image and the latent variable using a segmentation neural network having a plurality of segmentation neural network parameters to generate the possible segmentation of the image; and providing the plurality of possible segmentations of the image in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Simon Kohl, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Seyed Mohammadali Eslami, Pushmeet Kohli, Andrew Zisserman, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Publication number: 20200082534
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for segmenting a medical image. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a medical image that is captured using a medical imaging modality and that depicts a region of tissue in a body; and processing the medical image using a segmentation neural network to generate a segmentation output, wherein the segmentation neural network comprises a sequence of multiple encoder blocks, wherein: each encoder block is a residual neural network block comprising one or more two-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, one or more three-dimensional convolutional neural network layers, or both, and each encoder block is configured to process a respective encoder block input to generate a respective encoder block output wherein a spatial resolution of the encoder block output is lower than a spatial resolution of the encoder block input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Stanislav Nikolov, Samuel Blackwell, Jeffrey De Fauw, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Clemens Meyer, Harry Askham, Cian Hughes, Trevor Back, Joseph R. Ledsam, Olaf Ronneberger
  • Publication number: 20190139270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise
  • Patent number: 10198832
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise
  • Publication number: 20190005684
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey De Fauw, Joseph R. Ledsam, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Stanislav Nikolov, Nenad Tomasev, Samuel Blackwell, Harry Askham, Xavier Glorot, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Trevor Back, Mustafa Suleyman, Pearse A. Keane, Olaf Ronneberger, Julien Robert Michel Cornebise