Patents by Inventor Tarik Alkasab

Tarik Alkasab 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).

  • Systems, methods and media for automatically generating a bone age assessment from a radiograph
    Patent number: 10991093
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for generating a bone age assessment. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving an x-ray image of a subject's left hand and wrist; converting the image to a predetermined size; identifying, without user intervention, a first portion of the image corresponding to the hand and wrist; processing the first portion of the image to increase contrast between bones and non-bones to generate a processed image; causing a trained convolution neural network to determine a bone age based on the processed image; receiving an indication of the bone age; causing the bone age to be presented to a user as the result of a bone age assessment; and causing the bone age and the image to be stored in an electronic medical record associated with the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Synho Do, Hyunkwang Lee, Michael Gee, Shahein Tajmir, Tarik Alkasab
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A BONE AGE ASSESSMENT FROM A RADIOGRAPH
    Publication number: 20200020097
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for generating a bone age assessment. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving an x-ray image of a subject's left hand and wrist; converting the image to a predetermined size; identifying, without user intervention, a first portion of the image corresponding to the hand and wrist; processing the first portion of the image to increase contrast between bones and non-bones to generate a processed image; causing a trained convolution neural network to determine a bone age based on the processed image; receiving an indication of the bone age; causing the bone age to be presented to a user as the result of a bone age assessment; and causing the bone age and the image to be stored in an electronic medical record associated with the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Synho Do, Hyunkwang Lee, Michael Gee, Shahein Tajmir, Tarik Alkasab