Patents by Inventor Pascal Raymond Allain

Pascal Raymond Allain 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).

  • Method for the detection and automatic characterization of nodules in a tomographic image and a system of medical imaging by tomodensimetry
    Patent number: 7295870
    Abstract: For the automatic detection and characterization of nodules in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient, the image is segmented for identifying therein a region of interest, and the segmented image is processed for identifying the nodule. During the processing step, an ellipsoid inscribed in the region of interest is modeled for deciding whether the image elements inscribed in this ellipsoid correspond to a nodule, and, for each zone of the region of interest extending beyond the ellipsoid, the image elements are identified which do not belong to the module according to mathematical morphologic criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pascal Raymond Allain, Guy-Michel Hourdin, Matthieu Ferrant, Jerome Francois Knoplioch
  • Method for the detection and automatic characterization of nodules in a tomographic image and a system of medical imaging by tomodensimetry
    Publication number: 20030167001
    Abstract: For the automatic detection and characterization of nodules in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient, the image is segmented for identifying therein a region of interest, and the segmented image is processed for identifying the nodule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Pascal Raymond Allain, Guy-Michel Hourdin, Matthieu Ferrant, Jerome Francois Knoplioch