Patents by Inventor Philip P. Novosad

Philip P. Novosad 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: 11983869
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a plurality of training images representing different phases of a periodic motion of a target region in a patient; applying a model to the plurality of training images to generate a lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images; clustering the lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images into a plurality of groups corresponding to the different phases of the periodic motion; and classifying a motion phase associated with a new image of the target region in the patient based on the plurality of groups of the clustered lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Elekta, Inc.
    Inventors: François Hébert, Sebastien Tremblay, Philip P. Novosad
  • Patent number: 11842497
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing automatic contour adaptation. The systems and methods receive first and second images depicting an anatomy of a subject and obtain a segmentation associated with the first image. The systems and methods apply a trained neural network to estimate the adapted segmentation corresponding to the anatomy depicted in the second image, the trained network consisting of two sub-networks: a registration sub-network, generating an initial segmentation estimate representing a deformation of the segmentation associated with the first image to fit the anatomy depicted in the second image, and a segmentation refinement sub-network, predicting a refined segmentation for the second image given the initial segmentation estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Elekta Limited
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20230377724
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring and estimating an anatomic position of a human subject for a radiotherapy treatment session, based on use of an artificial intelligence (AI) model (e.g., a generative AI model comprising a Transformer deep learning neural network), are described. An example method of monitoring anatomic position with a trained AI model includes: receiving position information corresponding to observed positions of a tracked anatomical area of a patient, observed during the radiotherapy treatment session; providing the position information as an input to a trained model trained with temporal sequences of observed anatomical positions from training data; determining an estimated position of the tracked anatomical area of the patient at a future time, based on output of the trained model; and controlling the radiotherapy treatment session based on the estimated position of the tracked anatomical area of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Liset Vazquez Romaguera, Philip P. Novosad
  • Publication number: 20230377721
    Abstract: Joint training techniques to train multiple models across clinical datasets for automatic contouring. Rather than using separate deep neural networks that are trained independently for each different dataset (e.g., a different image contrast or anatomy), joint training can be used to train multiple models simultaneously across clinical datasets for automatic contouring. By taking advantage of commonalities between two or more datasets, the techniques effectively take advantage of data that would otherwise be considered irrelevant to the task—allowing the user to train more performant models while requiring less training data per dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Patent number: 11679276
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring anatomic position of a human subject and modifying a radiotherapy treatment based on anatomic position changes, as determined with a regression model trained to estimate movement of a region of interest. Example operations for movement monitoring and therapy control include: obtaining 3D image data for a subject, which provides a reference volume and at least one defined region of interest; obtaining real-time 2D image data corresponding to the subject, captured during the radiotherapy treatment session; extracting features from the 2D image data; producing a relative motion estimation of a region of interest with a machine learning regression model, the model trained to estimate a spatial transformation from the 2D image data based on training from the reference volume; and controlling a radiotherapy beam of a radiotherapy machine used in the radiotherapy session, based on the relative motion estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Elekta, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20230126640
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for estimating instantaneous patient motion (a patient state). The patient state may be estimated based on a 3D reference volume and a stream of images, for example from an image acquisition device. The stream of images may be received in real-time, for example during a radiation therapy treatment. An example method may include encoding the 3D reference volume using a 3D encoder branch of a patient state generator network, encoding the stream of images using a 2D encoder branch of the patient state generator network, and combining the encoded 3D reference volume and the encoded real-time stream of images. The method may include estimating a 3D spatial transform that maps the 3D reference volume to a current patient state by decoding the combined encoding using a 3D decoder branch of the patient state generator network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Patent number: 11544854
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving first and second images depicting an anatomy of a subject; obtaining a segmentation associated with the first image; applying a trained neural network to estimate the adapted segmentation corresponding to the anatomy depicted in the second image, the trained network consisting of three sub-networks: a registration sub-network, generating an initial segmentation estimate representing a deformation of the segmentation associated with the first image to fit the anatomy depicted in the second image, a segmentation sub-network, generating a second initial segmentation estimate for the second image, and a third refinement sub-network, combining the two initial segmentations and generating a refined segmentation for the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Elekta Limited
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20220398717
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a plurality of training images representing different phases of a periodic motion of a target region in a patient; applying a model to the plurality of training images to generate a lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images; clustering the lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images into a plurality of groups corresponding to the different phases of the periodic motion; and classifying a motion phase associated with a new image of the target region in the patient based on the plurality of groups of the clustered lower-dimensional feature space representation of the plurality of training images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: François Hébert, Sebastien Tremblay, Philip P. Novosad
  • Publication number: 20220347490
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring anatomic position of a human subject and modifying a radiotherapy treatment based on anatomic position changes, as determined with a regression model trained to estimate movement of a region of interest. Example operations for movement monitoring and therapy control include: obtaining 3D image data for a subject, which provides a reference volume and at least one defined region of interest; obtaining real-time 2D image data corresponding to the subject, captured during the radiotherapy treatment session; extracting features from the 2D image data; producing a relative motion estimation of a region of interest with a machine learning regression model, the model trained to estimate a spatial transformation from the 2D image data based on training from the reference volume; and controlling a radiotherapy beam of a radiotherapy machine used in the radiotherapy session, based on the relative motion estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20220347493
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring anatomic position of a human subject for a radiotherapy treatment session, based on use of a regression model trained to estimate movement of a region of interest based on 2D image data input. Example operations for movement estimation include: obtaining 3D image data for a subject, which provides a reference volume and at least one defined region of interest; obtaining 2D image data corresponding to the subject, captured in real time (during the radiotherapy treatment session); extracting features from the 2D image data; analyzing the extracted features with a machine learning regression model, trained to estimate a spatial transformation in the three dimensions of the reference volume; and outputting and using a relative motion estimation of the at least one region of interest, produced from the machine learning regression model, the relative motion estimation being estimated from the extracted features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20220176157
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a current fraction image and a reference image each depicting an anatomy of a subject, the reference image corresponding to a previous radiotherapy treatment fraction, the current fraction image corresponding to a current radiotherapy treatment fraction; obtaining a reference segmentation associated with the reference image; encoding, by a current fraction encoder, the current fraction image to generate a first set of features; encoding, by a reference encoder, the reference image and the reference segmentation to generate a second set of features; decoding, by a decoder, a combination of the first set of features and the second set of features to generate a predicted segmentation of the current fraction image; and configuring a radiotherapy treatment parameter based on the predicted segmentation of the current fraction image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20220180523
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving first and second images depicting an anatomy of a subject; obtaining a segmentation associated with the first image; applying a trained neural network to estimate the adapted segmentation corresponding to the anatomy depicted in the second image, the trained network consisting of two sub-networks: a registration sub-network, generating an initial segmentation estimate representing a deformation of the segmentation associated with the first image to fit the anatomy depicted in the second image, and a segmentation refinement sub-network, predicting a refined segmentation for the second image given the initial segmentation estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault
  • Publication number: 20220180524
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving first and second images depicting an anatomy of a subject; obtaining a segmentation associated with the first image; applying a trained neural network to estimate the adapted segmentation corresponding to the anatomy depicted in the second image, the trained network consisting of three sub-networks: a registration sub-network, generating an initial segmentation estimate representing a deformation of the segmentation associated with the first image to fit the anatomy depicted in the second image, a segmentation sub-network, generating a second initial segmentation estimate for the second image, and a third refinement sub-network, combining the two initial segmentations and generating a refined segmentation for the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Philip P. Novosad, Silvain Beriault