Patents by Inventor Sjoerd Diepen

Sjoerd Diepen 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: 8787641
    Abstract: Method for quantitative analysis of a tree or part of a tree of recursively splitting tubular organs, the method comprising the following steps: —providing a 3D model of said tree or part of said tree, such 3D model giving a representation of the surface of the lumen wall of the tubular organs forming the tree or part of the tree; —defining the 3D centerlines of said tree or part of the tree; —identifying the branches of the tree; —identifying N-furcations of the tree or part of the tree, an N-furcation being a part of the tree where a proximal tubular organ branches into two or more distal tubular organs, further comprising the step of: —dividing, independently from the modality used for obtaining the 3D model, each branch in one or more regions, such regions being of two different types, named single vessel region and splitting region, different cross-section surfaces being defined in such regions, wherein the splitting regions can exist at the proximal side of a branch as well as at the distal side of said
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Pie Medical Imaging B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Adrianus Engelbertus Johannes Hof, Sjoerd Diepen, Ron Hubertus Schormans