Patents by Inventor Tobias Elze

Tobias Elze 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).

  • Publication number: 20240049960
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for predicting clinical parameters relating to glaucoma from central visual field patterns. A system includes a processor, an output device, and a computer readable medium that stores executable instructions. The instructions provide a pattern decomposition component that receives a set of visual field data for a patient representing, for each of a plurality of locations in the central region of an eye of the patient, a deviation in sensitivity to a visual stimulus from an age-adjusted normal value and decomposes the set of visual field data into a linear combination of a set of patterns defined via archetypal analysis over a corpus of visual field data to provide a set of decomposition coefficients. A machine learning model determines a clinical parameter for the patient from at least the set of decomposition coefficients, and a user interface provides the determined clinical parameter to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mengyu Wang, Lucy Shen, Tobias Elze
  • Patent number: 11594308
    Abstract: Methods and systems providing adaptive assessment of a physical subject to efficiently collect assessment data and modify an assessment schedule based on the analyses. The methods and systems can control the timing of each assessment in order to collect data at times and under conditions that are most informative about the physical subject. Such adaptive methods and systems significantly minimize the frequency of data collection without loss in accuracy or precision and can increase test reliability through reduction in redundancy. The ability to estimate an unknown, underlying function using a small number of free parameters that remain constant regardless of the number of data points being estimated substantially reduces the error of the function estimate. Because estimates of the measurement error are achieved with a minimum of sampled assessments, and with great accuracy, the statistical power of clinical trials, for example, can be greatly increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, THE SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Peter John Bex, John F. Ackermann, Tobias Elze
  • Publication number: 20180190380
    Abstract: Methods and systems providing adaptive assessment of a physical subject to efficiently collect assessment data and modify an assessment schedule based on the analyses. The methods and systems can control the timing of each assessment in order to collect data at times and under conditions that are most informative about the physical subject. Such adaptive methods and systems significantly minimize the frequency of data collection without loss in accuracy or precision and can increase test reliability through reduction in redundancy. The ability to estimate an unknown, underlying function using a small number of free parameters that remain constant regardless of the number of data points being estimated substantially reduces the error of the function estimate. Because estimates of the measurement error are achieved with a minimum of sampled assessments, and with great accuracy, the statistical power of clinical trials, for example, can be greatly increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Peter John Bex, John F. Ackermann, Tobias Elze
  • Patent number: 9883793
    Abstract: In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include determining a probabilistic model representing threshold sensitivities across the visual field, the probabilistic model determined based on the data, the connection strengths, and the noise values. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. In some implementations, the probabilistic model may include a continuous probability distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Benner, Tobias Elze, Peter Bex
  • Publication number: 20170258316
    Abstract: In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include determining a probabilistic model representing threshold sensitivities across the visual field, the probabilistic model determined based on the data, the connection strengths, and the noise values. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. In some implementations, the probabilistic model may include a continuous probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Philipp Benner, Tobias Elze, Peter Bex