Patents by Inventor Stephen M. Humphries

Stephen M. Humphries 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: 11922626
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: National Jewish Health
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Publication number: 20230260108
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Publication number: 20220398763
    Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting a presence of opacification or pneumatization in skeletal structures of patients are disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving images, processing the images using a convolutional neural network, and generating, with the convolutional neural network, an opacification score for the image. Systems and methods include training the convolutional neural network to delineate skeletal structure pixels within a computed tomography scan image and to generate an intensity value for each skeletal structure pixel within a computed tomography scan image to determine an opacification score for the computed tomography scan image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen M. Humphries
  • Patent number: 11494902
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: National Jewish Health
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Patent number: 11468564
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: National Jewish Health
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Publication number: 20210279872
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Publication number: 20200372645
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Patent number: 10706533
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: National Jewish Health
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries
  • Publication number: 20170330320
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for quantifying an extent of various pathology patterns in scanned subject images. The detection and quantification of pathology is performed automatically and unsupervised via a trained system. The methods, devices, and systems described herein generate unique dictionaries of elements based on actual image data scans to automatically identify pathology of new image data scans of subjects. The automatic detection and quantification system can detect a number of pathologies including a usual interstitial pneumonia pattern on computed tomography images, which is subject to high inter-observer variation, in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: David A. Lynch, Stephen M. Humphries