Patents by Inventor Ritwik K. Kumar

Ritwik K. Kumar 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).

  • Publication number: 20150141826
    Abstract: Use of medical workflows where a first medical workflow is obtained from a plurality of medical acts performed in sequence that related to care of a patient. A set of condition-indication rules is applied to the first medical workflow to determine first condition information. The first condition information relates to a likelihood that a first medical condition exists in the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: David J. Beymer, Karen W. Brannon, Colin B. Compas, Ritwik K. Kumar, Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood
  • Publication number: 20150003697
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to segmenting blood vessels in angiogram images. An aspect includes a method that includes receiving and preprocessing at least one angiogram frame and preprocessing. In one embodiment, at least one angiogram frame is received and preprocessed. Bottom-up filtering of the preprocessed angiogram frame and top-down segmentation of the preprocessed angiogram frame are performed based on the results of the bottom-up filtering. The bottom-up filtering and the top-down segmentation are iteratively repeated until the difference between results of the top-down segmentation from consecutive iterations is equal to or below a threshold value. Based on determining that a difference between results of the top-down segmentation from consecutive iterations is below or equal to the threshold value, the results of the top-down segmentation are outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Beymer, Ritwik K. Kumar, Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Fei Wang, Yong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150003694
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to segmenting blood vessels in angiogram images. An aspect includes a method that includes receiving and preprocessing at least one angiogram frame and preprocessing. In one embodiment, at least one angiogram frame is received and preprocessed. Bottom-up filtering of the preprocessed angiogram frame and top-down segmentation of the preprocessed angiogram frame are performed based on the results of the bottom-up filtering. The bottom-up filtering and the top-down segmentation are iteratively repeated until the difference between results of the top-down segmentation from consecutive iterations is equal to or below a threshold value. Based on determining that a difference between results of the top-down segmentation from consecutive iterations is below or equal to the threshold value, the results of the top-down segmentation are outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: David J. Beymer, Ritwik K. Kumar, Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Fei Wang, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8750375
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for echocardiogram view classification is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: obtaining a plurality of video images of a subject; aligning the plurality images; using the aligned images to generate a motion magnitude image; filtering the motion magnitude image using an edge map on image intensity; detecting features on the motion magnitude image, retaining only those features which lie in the neighborhood of intensity edges; encoding the remaining features by generating, x, y image coordinates, a motion magnitude histogram in a window around the feature point, and a histogram of intensity values near the feature point; and using the encoded features to classify the video images of the subject into a predetermined classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David James Beymer, Ritwik K Kumar, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 8744152
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for echocardiogram view classification is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: obtaining a plurality of video images of a subject; aligning the plurality images; using the aligned images to generate a motion magnitude image; filtering the motion magnitude image using an edge map on image intensity; detecting features on the motion magnitude image, retaining only those features which lie in the neighborhood of intensity edges; encoding the remaining features by generating, x, y image coordinates, a motion magnitude histogram in a window around the feature point, and a histogram of intensity values near the feature point; and using the encoded features to classify the video images of the subject into a predetermined classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Beymer, Ritwik K. Kumar, Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Fei Wang