Patents by Inventor Saad Ahmed Sirohey

Saad Ahmed Sirohey 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to facilitate review of CT colonography exams
    Publication number: 20040264753
    Abstract: A method of performing a colon exam includes obtaining at least two initial Computed Tomography (CT) datasets, extracting colon automatically from the CT datasets, synthesizing views of the extracted colon, displaying a plurality of obtained and synthesized views of the colon simultaneously, and synchronizing the views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Renaud Capolunghi, Laurent Launay, Jerome Knoplioch, Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Gopal B. Avinash
  • Systems and methods for retrospective internal gating
    Publication number: 20040258286
    Abstract: A method for retrospective internal gating is described. The method includes acquiring images at multiple z-locations z1. . . zn and at different times t1 . . . tn at each of the z-locations, and reordering the images at at least one of the z-locations to obtain a synchronized image set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Prathyusha K. Salla, Gopal B. Avinash, Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Tin-Su Pan
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF NODULES
    Publication number: 20040105527
    Abstract: A method for detection and classification of nodules (N) in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient includes segmenting the image to identify therein a region of interest including at least one nodule, and classifying regions of the nodule as one of solid, part-solid, and non-solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Matthieu Ferrant, Kelly Lynn Karau, Saad Ahmed Sirohey