Patents by Inventor Stephen Correia

Stephen Correia 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).

  • Quantitative tract-of-interest metrics for white matter integrity based on diffusion tensor MRI data
    Patent number: 8170305
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate at least in part to a method, apparatus and system to characterize white matter, such as for detecting a presence of a white matter impairment. An exemplary method to characterize white matter includes identifying at least one tract of interest (TOI) in the brain of a subject of interest, the tract of interest having a set of streamtubes representing white matter fibers; determining a set of quantitative tractography metrics associated with the tract of interest, the set of quantitative tractography metrics having a plurality of members; and comparing at least one member of the determined set of quantitative tractography metrics to a corresponding member of a reference set of quantitative tractography metrics, or comparison of one TOI in a single subject or group of subjects and other TOI in the same subject(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Brown University
    Inventors: David H Laidlaw, Song Zhang, Stephanie Yat-Lin Lee, Stephen Correia
  • Quantitative tract-of-interest metrics for white matter integrity based on diffusion tensor MRI data
    Publication number: 20080205733
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate at least in part to a method, apparatus and system to characterize white matter, such as for detecting a presence of a white matter impairment. An exemplary method to characterize white matter includes identifying at least one tract of interest (TOI) in the brain of a subject of interest, the tract of interest having a set of streamtubes representing white matter fibers; determining a set of quantitative tractography metrics associated with the tract of interest, the set of quantitative tractography metrics having a plurality of members; and comparing at least one member of the determined set of quantitative tractography metrics to a corresponding member of a reference set of quantitative tractography metrics, or comparison of one TOI in a single subject or group of subjects and other TOI in the same subject(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: David H. Laidlaw, Song Zhang, Stephanie Yat-Lin Lee, Stephen Correia