Patents by Inventor Shannon Lee Hastings

Shannon Lee Hastings 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 and system for lung disease detection
    Patent number: 7058210
    Abstract: A method for processing medical images for use in the detection and diagnosis of disease comprises classifying regions of interest within the medical images based on a hierarchy of anatomical models and signal models of signal information of an image acquisition device used to acquire the medical images. The anatomical models are derived to be representative of anatomical information indicative of a given disease. A computer-aided system for use in the diagnosis and detection of disease comprises an image acquisition device for acquiring a plurality of image data sets and a processor adapted to process the image data sets. The processor is adapted to classify selected tissue types within the image data sets based on a hierarchy of signal and anatomical models and the processor is further adapted to differentiate anatomical context of the classified tissue types for use in the diagnosis and detection of disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Leagrand Mundy, Colin Craig McCulloch, Ricardo Scott Avila, Shannon Lee Hastings, Robert August Kaucic, Jr., William Edward Lorensen, Matthew William Turek
  • Method and system for lung disease detection
    Publication number: 20030095692
    Abstract: A method for processing medical images for use in the detection and diagnosis of disease comprises classifying regions of interest within the medical images based on a hierarchy of anatomical models and signal models of signal information of an image acquisition device used to acquire the medical images. The anatomical models are derived to be representative of anatomical information indicative of a given disease. A computer-aided system for use in the diagnosis and detection of disease comprises an image acquisition device for acquiring a plurality of image data sets and a processor adapted to process the image data sets. The processor is adapted to classify selected tissue types within the image data sets based on a hierarchy of signal and anatomical models and the processor is further adapted to differentiate anatomical context of the classified tissue types for use in the diagnosis and detection of disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Leagrand Mundy, Colin Craig McCulloch, Ricardo Scott Avila, Shannon Lee Hastings, Robert August Kaucic, William Edward Lorensen, Matthew William Turek