Patents by Inventor Thomas Helle-Valle

Thomas Helle-Valle 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: 8208703
    Abstract: A motion function of a biological tissue is efficiently evaluated on the basis of image data collected from different medical image diagnostic apparatuses. In terms of a common analysis algorithm applied to subject's time-series image data supplied from a separate medical image diagnostic apparatus, a setting part sets a plurality of interest points on a myocardial tissue of a reference image data extracted from the image data, and a tracking process part measures a motion parameter on the basis of displacement information of the myocardial tissue at the interest points obtained by a tracking process between the reference image data and subsequent image data thereof. Meanwhile, a data creating unit creates parameter image data showing two-dimension distribution of the motion parameter or parameter time-series data showing a variation in time of the motion parameter as parameter data on the basis of the measurement result, and displays the parameter data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawagishi, Hiroyuki Ohuchi, Yasuhiko Abe, Thomas Helle-Valle, Joao A. C. Lima
  • Publication number: 20100111380
    Abstract: A motion function of a biological tissue is efficiently evaluated on the basis of image data collected from different medical image diagnostic apparatuses. In terms of a common analysis algorithm applied to subject's time-series image data supplied from a separate medical image diagnostic apparatus, a setting part sets a plurality of interest points on a myocardial tissue of a reference image data extracted from the image data, and a tracking process part measures a motion parameter on the basis of displacement information of the myocardial tissue at the interest points obtained by a tracking process between the reference image data and subsequent image data thereof. Meanwhile, a data creating unit creates parameter image data showing two-dimension distribution of the motion parameter or parameter time-series data showing a variation in time of the motion parameter as parameter data on the basis of the measurement result, and displays the parameter data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawagishi, Hiroyuki Ohuchi, Yasuhiko Abe, Thomas Helle-Valle, Joao A. C. Lima