Patents by Inventor Sagar Mandava

Sagar Mandava 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: 11408954
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of reducing noise and artifacts in medical images is provided. The method includes receiving a series of medical images along a first dimension, wherein the signals in the medical images having a higher correlation in the first dimension than the noise and the artifacts in the medical images. The method further includes, for each of a plurality of pixels in the medical images, deriving a series of data points along the first dimension based on the series of medical images, inputting the series of data points into a neural network model, and outputting the component of signals in the series of data points. The neural network model is configured to separate a component of signals from a component of noise and artifacts in the series of data points. The method further includes generating a series of corrected medical images based on the outputted component of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Sagar Mandava, Ty A. Cashen, Daniel Litwiller, Ersin Bayram
  • Publication number: 20220237748
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for independently removing streak artifacts and noise from medical images, using trained deep neural networks. In one embodiment, streak artifacts and noise may be selectively and independently removed from a medical image by receiving the medical image comprising streak artifacts and noise, mapping the medical image to a streak residual and a noise residual using the trained deep neural network, subtracting the streak residual from the medical image to a first extent, and subtracting the noise residual from the medical image to a second extent, to produce a de-noised medical image, and displaying the de-noised medical image via a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Xinzeng Wang, Daniel Vance Litwiller, Sagar Mandava, Robert Marc Lebel, Graeme Colin Mckinnon, Ersin Bayram
  • Patent number: 11341616
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for independently removing streak artifacts and noise from medical images, using trained deep neural networks. In one embodiment, streak artifacts and noise may be selectively and independently removed from a medical image by receiving the medical image comprising streak artifacts and noise, mapping the medical image to a streak residual and a noise residual using the trained deep neural network, subtracting the streak residual from the medical image to a first extent, and subtracting the noise residual from the medical image to a second extent, to produce a de-noised medical image, and displaying the de-noised medical image via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare
    Inventors: Xinzeng Wang, Daniel Vance Litwiller, Sagar Mandava, Robert Marc Lebel, Graeme Colin McKinnon, Ersin Bayram
  • Publication number: 20210302525
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of reducing noise and artifacts in medical images is provided. The method includes receiving a series of medical images along a first dimension, wherein the signals in the medical images having a higher correlation in the first dimension than the noise and the artifacts in the medical images. The method further includes, for each of a plurality of pixels in the medical images, deriving a series of data points along the first dimension based on the series of medical images, inputting the series of data points into a neural network model, and outputting the component of signals in the series of data points. The neural network model is configured to separate a component of signals from a component of noise and artifacts in the series of data points. The method further includes generating a series of corrected medical images based on the outputted component of signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Sagar Mandava, Ty A. Cashen, Daniel Litwiller, Ersin Bayram
  • Publication number: 20210295474
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for independently removing streak artifacts and noise from medical images, using trained deep neural networks. In one embodiment, streak artifacts and noise may be selectively and independently removed from a medical image by receiving the medical image comprising streak artifacts and noise, mapping the medical image to a streak residual and a noise residual using the trained deep neural network, subtracting the streak residual from the medical image to a first extent, and subtracting the noise residual from the medical image to a second extent, to produce a de-noised medical image, and displaying the de-noised medical image via a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Xinzeng Wang, Daniel Vance Litwiller, Sagar Mandava, Robert Marc Lebel, Graeme Colin McKinnon, Ersin Bayram
  • Publication number: 20210124005
    Abstract: A method for producing a streak-suppressed magnetic resonance (MR) image of a subject includes generating an interference covariance matrix {circumflex over (?)}R front N coil images Ij (x,y), j={1, 2, . . . , N}, each of the N coil images Ij (x,y) corresponding to MR signals detected by a respective one of a phased array of N coils of an MRI scanner. The MR signals originate in voxels of the subject corresponding to an artifact-corrupted region of a coil image. Coordinates (x,y) correspond to a location within a cross-sectional plane of the subject. The method also includes, for subject-regions of cross-sectional plane centered at a respective location (x,y), determining a coil weight vector W (x,y) from {circumflex over (?)}R. The method also includes generating the streak-suppressed MR image as a weighted sum of the coil images Ij (x,y), each weight of the weighted sum being Wj* (x,y), a jth element of a complex conjugate of coil weight vector W (x,y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Sagar Mandava, Maria I. Altbach, Ali Bilgin, Diego R. Martin, Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan