Biomedical Applications Patents (Class 382/128)
  • Patent number: 12260952
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a first medical image, wherein the first medical image includes a representation of a target organ, and processing, by the one or more processors, the first medical image based at least in part on a first machine learning model. A classification result associated with the first medical image and a first image of a target region in the first medical image are obtained based at least in part on the processing of the first medical image using the first machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jianqiang Ma, Zhe Tang, Minfeng Xu, Shuangrui Liu, Wenchao Guo
  • Patent number: 12260582
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of estimating a pose of a target object in a three-dimensional scene includes: obtaining image data and associated depth information representing a view of the three-dimensional scene; processing the image data and the associated depth information to generate a volumetric reconstruction for each of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional scene, including the target object; determining a volumetric grid containing the target object; generating, using the generated volumetric reconstructions, occupancy data indicating portions of the volumetric grid occupied by free space and portions of the volumetric grid occupied by objects other than the target object; and estimating the pose of the target object using the generated occupancy data and pointwise feature data for a plurality of points on a surface of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Imperial College Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Kentaro Wada, Edgar Antonio Sucar Escamilla, Stephen Lloyd James, Daniel James Lenton, Andrew Davison
  • Patent number: 12260622
    Abstract: Described herein are means for generating source models for transfer learning to application specific models used in the processing of medical imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Zongwei Zhou, Vatsal Sodha, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Ruibin Feng, Nima Tajbakhsh, Jianming Liang
  • Patent number: 12257099
    Abstract: A mobile radiographic imaging apparatus that performs dynamic imaging by using radiation, includes a detector, a wireless communication interface, and a hardware processor. The detector detects a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point. The wireless communication interface connects to the first wireless access point as a connection point and outputs a dynamic image including a plurality of frames acquired in the dynamic imaging to the first wireless access point. The hardware processor controls a change of the connection point from the first wireless access point to the second wireless access point. The hardware processor further performs control to inhibit the change of the connection point in a period when the frame images are still being output to the first wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nishijima, Atsushi Taneda, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12257096
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide automated systems for accurately estimating infusion coverage within a target brain region in real-time (or approximately real-time) during surgical procedures. Such accurate and real-time infusion coverage estimation enables intraoperative monitoring and adjustment of infusion parameters (e.g., cannula tip location, infusate delivery flow rate, etc.) for achieving optimal/improved infusion coverage for a given drug therapy. Accordingly, examples of the presently disclosed technology can improve the efficacy and safety of drug therapies delivered to the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ClearPoint Neuro, Inc.
    Inventors: Lyubomir Zagorchev, Damon Hyde, Chen Li
  • Patent number: 12260554
    Abstract: In a case where a first specific scene recognized at a time of insertion of an endoscope is stored in a specific scene memory and a recognized scene recognized by a scene recognition unit is a scene on a side deeper than the first specific scene in a direction of movement of the endoscope, the recognized scene is output without being changed. In a case where the first specific scene is stored in the specific scene memory and the recognized scene is a scene on a side shallower than the first specific scene in the direction of movement of the endoscope, the recognized scene is changed and output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Misaki Meguro
  • Patent number: 12260607
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for augmenting digital analysis of lesions. An image of tissue having a glandular epithelial component is generated. The image represents a plurality of medium-scale epithelial components. For each of a plurality of cells within the image, a representative point is identified to provide a plurality of representative points for each of the plurality of medium-scale epithelial components. For each of a subset of the plurality of medium-scale epithelial components, a graph connecting the plurality of representative points is constructed. A plurality of classification features is extracted for each of the subset of medium-scale epithelial components from the graph constructed for the medium-scale epithelial component. A clinical parameter is assigned to each medium-scale epithelial component according to the extracted plurality of classification features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., CHARITE UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN
    Inventors: George L. Mutter, Peter Hufnagl, Sebastian Lohmann, David James Papke, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12260558
    Abstract: Described herein are Deep Multi-Magnification Networks (DMMNs). The multi-class tissue segmentation architecture processes a set of patches from multiple magnifications to make more accurate predictions. For the supervised training, partial annotations may be used to reduce the burden of annotators. The segmentation architecture with multi-encoder, multi-decoder, and multi-concatenation outperforms other segmentation architectures on breast datasets, and can be used to facilitate pathologists' assessments of breast cancer in margin specimens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    Inventors: Thomas Fuchs, David Joon Ho
  • Patent number: 12256996
    Abstract: A method for modeling a joint before, during, and/or after a medical procedure includes receiving first imaging data capturing the joint from a first imaging perspective and second imaging data capturing the joint from a second imaging perspective that is different than the first imaging perspective, the first and second imaging data generated intraoperatively via a two-dimensional imaging modality, generating three-dimensional image data by back-projecting the first and second imaging data in three-dimensional space in accordance with a relative difference between the first and second imaging perspectives, generating a three-dimensional model of the joint based on processing the three-dimensional image data with a machine learning model trained on imaging data generated via at least a three-dimensional imaging modality, and displaying a visualization based on the three-dimensional model of the joint during the medical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Fouts, Jakob Kemper, Heiko Michael Gottschling, Manuel Schroeder
  • Patent number: 12257088
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of reducing scatter in an X-ray projection image of an object comprises: generating an initial X-ray projection image with an imaging beam and an X-ray detector; based on a first position in a detector array of the X-ray detector, selecting a first kernel for convolution of a first portion of the initial projection image, wherein the first position corresponds to the first portion of the initial projection image; based on a second position in the detector array of the X-ray detector, selecting a second kernel for convolution of a second portion of the initial projection image, wherein the second position corresponds to the second portion of the initial projection image; convolving the first portion with the first kernel and the second portion with the second kernel to generate a scatter component of the initial X-ray projection image; and generating a corrected X-ray projection image by removing the scatter component from the initial X-ray projection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Mathieu Plamondon, Balazs Nagy, Mathias Lehmann, Adam Michal Strzelecki, Igor Peterlik, Dieter Marc Seghers
  • Patent number: 12251278
    Abstract: A shade matching method for a tooth obtains a plurality of digitized tooth shade references, obtains a three-dimensional (3D) surface representation of a tooth and associated color information defined on the three-dimensional (3D) surface, selects a region on the three-dimensional (3D) surface representation of the tooth, determines a plurality of correspondences with the common tooth shape of all the tooth shade references, computes color difference with each of the tooth shade reference from the plurality of tooth shade references, and records the label corresponding to the shade reference with a smallest difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yannick Glinec, Victor C. Wong
  • Patent number: 12251170
    Abstract: A system may comprise a tool including at least one reference feature. a processor, and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the system to receive image data including an image of the tool and the at least one reference feature, determine a pose of the tool from the image data, and modify the image data to visually decrement a portion of the image data corresponding to the at least one reference feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao, William C. Nowlin
  • Patent number: 12251192
    Abstract: A method (700) for localizing inflammation within a user's mouth using an oral care device (10), comprising the steps of: (i) emitting (720) light by one or more light emitters (42) of the oral care device; (ii) detecting (730), by a light detector (40) of the oral care device, reflectance from a surface at each of a plurality of locations within the user's mouth to generate reflectance data for each of the plurality of locations; (iii) determining (750), by the controller, for the plurality of locations, whether gingiva at that location is inflamed; and (iv) providing (760), via a user interface (46) of the oral care device, information to the user regarding the inflamed location or locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincent Jeanne, Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Borisenko, Steven Charles Deane, Olaf Thomas Johan Antonie Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 12251320
    Abstract: A personalized fixation system includes a surgical planning software tool configured to adjust relationships of relevant anatomy of a subject, at least one bone anchor, a plate having a shape that does not conform to a single plane, the plate configured to accept the at least one bone anchor, wherein the shape of the plate is at least partially determined by the surgical planning software tool, and wherein the plate includes at least one node having a hole configured to receive the at least one bone anchor, and a locking element configured to connect the at least one bone anchor to the plate, wherein the plate is manufactured using additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Carlsmed, Inc.
    Inventors: Niall Patrick Casey, Michael J. Cordonnier
  • Patent number: 12254533
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of iteratively reconstructing images or a volume using deep learning and a computer-implemented method of training, projection filter parameter(s) of a projection (joint) bilateral filter, (J)BF, are automatically tuned by a first trained neural network based on data of projections of an imaging procedure. Volume filter parameter(s) of a volume (J)BF are automatically tuned by a second trained neural network based on data of a volume backward-projected from projections filtered by the projection (joint) bilateral filter using the automatically tuned projection filter parameter(s). A volume filtered by the volume (J)BF is output as the reconstructed images or volume, in case the filtered volume meets a predefined quality criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
    Inventors: Mayank Patwari, Ralf Gutjahr, Rainer Raupach
  • Patent number: 12254643
    Abstract: A method for registering a two-dimensional image data set with a three-dimensional image data set of a body of interest is discloses herein. The method includes the following steps: defining a first vector of a registered virtual camera in a coordinate system of the three-dimensional image data et; obtaining a first transformed vector of an unregistered virtual camera in the coordinate system of the three-dimensional image data set by transforming the first vector of the registered virtual camera through at least one transforming matrix; defining a focal point of the unregistered virtual camera at a reference point of the two-dimensional image data set in the coordinate system of the three-dimensional image data set; and repositioning the unregistered virtual camera according to the first transformed vector and the focal point of the unregistered virtual camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: REMEX MEDICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Sheng-Fang Lin, Ying-Yi Cheng, Chen-Tai Lin, Shan-Chien Cheng
  • Patent number: 12254536
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reconstruction apparatus obtains acquired raw data, and reconstruct a data set that represents a measured physical amount with a multidimensional space based on the acquired raw data. Herein, the apparatus performs reduction processing for generating noise-reduced partial data from partial data relating to a partial area of a data set at a current number of iterations, error compensation processing for compensating errors in a data set at the current number of iterations with respect to the acquired raw data, and optimization processing for reconstructing the data set by repeating the reduction processing and the error compensation processing until predetermined criteria are met, while moving the partial area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenori Takeshima
  • Patent number: 12251184
    Abstract: A method comprises obtaining, for one or more medical instruments coupled to a teleoperational medical system, one or more corresponding medical instrument positions relative to a field of view of at least one imaging instrument coupled to the teleoperation medical system. The method also comprises initiating, for a selected medical instrument of the one or more medical instruments, generation of a corresponding indicator to a user. The corresponding indicator may be based on a position of the selected medical instrument relative to the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr
  • Patent number: 12251245
    Abstract: A radiological apparatus including: a gantry encapsulated within a cover, a patient platform, and two radiation sources with imaging directions orthogonal to each other, sliding vertically to perform vertical scanning of a patient standing on the platform. The gantry cover top view is L shaped, each radiation source being located outside the gantry cover, inside the angular sector of the L, and is encapsulated within a cover sliding vertically with the radiation source it encapsulates. The radiological apparatus also includes: a first security device stopping the vertical scanning, when it detects a patient body part going outside a first predetermined area, to avoid collision with the vertically sliding radiation sources covers, and a second security device stopping the vertical scanning, when it detects an object or a person external to the radiological apparatus within a second predetermined area, to avoid collision with the vertically sliding radiation sources covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: EOS IMAGING
    Inventors: Stéphane Bleas, Pascal Desaute, Laurent Jacquier, Cédric Nottebaert, David Vittecoq
  • Patent number: 12251580
    Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Vision RT Limited
    Inventors: Ivan Meir, Martin Allen, Gideon Hale, Norman Smith, Robert Howe
  • Patent number: 12254974
    Abstract: To provide a medicine collation device, a medicine collation system, a medicine management method, and a program, capable of collecting medicine images that are candidates for master images. The medicine collation device includes: a medicine image acquiring unit configured to acquire a medicine image generated by imaging a medicine to be collated; a first master image storing unit configured to store a master image of the medicine; a collating unit configured to collate the medicine image with the master image; an associating unit configured to associate the medicine image collated by the collating unit, with identification information on the medicine image; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the medicine image and the identification information that are associated in the associating unit, to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanobu Takashima
  • Patent number: 12254556
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; computing one or more surface normals associated with intersections of the one or more rays with one or more surfaces, where computing each surface normal includes: computing a plurality of intermediate surface normals associated with a plurality of adjacent voxels of a grid, and interpolating the plurality of intermediate surface normals; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more surface normals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herman Hansson Soederlund, Alex Evans, Tomas Akenine-Moller
  • Patent number: 12254684
    Abstract: The present application is suitable for use in the technical field of computers, and provides a smart diagnosis assistance method and terminal based on medical images, comprising: acquiring a medical image to be classified; pre-processing the medical image to be classified to obtain a pre-processed image; and inputting the pre-processed image into a trained classification model for classification processing to obtain a classification type corresponding to the pre-processed image, the classification model comprising tensorized network layers and a second-order pooling module. As the trained classification model comprises tensor decomposed network layers and a second-order pooling module, when processing images on the basis of the classification model, more discriminative features related to pathologies can be extracted, increasing the accuracy of medical image classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shuqiang Wang, Wen Yu, Yanyan Shen, Zhuo Chen
  • Patent number: 12245754
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for treating an influenza virus infectious disease, containing an anti-influenza virus agent as an active ingredient is provided. The anti-influenza virus agent is administered to a patient determined to be positive for the influenza virus infectious disease based on an intraoral image captured using an intraoral imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AILLIS INC.
    Inventor: Syou Okiyama
  • Patent number: 12249062
    Abstract: Techniques for segmentation include determining an edge of voxels in a range associated with a target object. A center voxel is determined. Target size is determined based on the center voxel. In some embodiments, edges near the center are suppressed, markers are determined based on the center, and an initial boundary is determined using a watershed transform. Some embodiments include determining multiple rays originating at the center in 3D, and determining adjacent rays for each. In some embodiments, a 2D field of amplitudes is determined on a first dimension for distance along a ray and a second dimension for successive rays in order. An initial boundary is determined based on a path of minimum cost to connect each ray. In some embodiments, active contouring is performed using a novel term to refine the initial boundary. In some embodiments, boundaries of part-solid target objects are refined using Markov models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Yongqiang Tan, Binsheng Zhao, Lawrence H. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12245851
    Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a non-face-to-face health status measurement system and method through a camera-based vital sign data extraction and an electronic questionnaire, providing a system and a method for monitoring various infectious diseases and enabling rapid response to the occurrence of diseases and infectious diseases by measuring a health status of a user in non-face-to-face through a vital sign data including heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, etc. extracted by using color information of a face image taken with a camera and results of an electronic questionnaire performed online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TVSTORM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Yeol Kim, Jin Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12249052
    Abstract: A system and/or method uses a trained U-Net neural network to remove flow artifacts from optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography (OCTA) data. The trained U-Net receives as input both OCT structural volume data and OCTA volume data, but expands the OCTA volume data to include depth information. The U-Net applies dynamic pooling along the depth direction and weighs more heavily the portion of the data that follows (e.g., along the contours of) select retinal layers. In this manner the U-Net applies contextually different computations at different axial locations based at least in part on the depth index information and/or (e.g., proximity to) the select retinal layers. The U-net outputs OCT volume data of reduced flow artifacts as compared with the input OCTA data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Aaron Lee, Warren Lewis, Luis De Sisternes, Theodore Spaide
  • Patent number: 12249075
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus of processing image. The method includes: obtaining an initial bone segmentation result; and fusing the initial bone segmentation result based on characteristics of and correspondences between a plurality of bone segmentation results in the initial bone segmentation result, to obtain a target bone segmentation result. The initial bone segmentation result includes the plurality of bone segmentation results generated by a plurality of different deep learning models. Methods in the embodiments of the present application can improve precision of a fusion result of the plurality of bone segmentation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Infervision Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanfeng Sun, Shaokang Wang, Kuan Chen
  • Patent number: 12249099
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for reconstructing an image is provided. An imaging device may be oriented at one or more poses and an image may be received at each of the one or more poses to form a set of images. Pose information may be received at each of the one or more poses. The set of images and the pose information may be inputted into a reconstruction model to generate a three-dimensional representation of the one or more anatomical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie Elizabeth Wiegel, Aditya R. Dalvi, Andrew J. Koert
  • Patent number: 12249067
    Abstract: Techniques are described that facilitate dynamic multimodal segmentation selection and fusion in medical imaging. In one example embodiment, a computer processing system receives a segmentation dataset comprising a combination of different image segmentations of an anatomical object of interest respectively segmented via different segmentation models from different medical images captured of the (same) anatomical object, wherein the different medical images and the different image segmentations vary with respect to at least one of, capture modality, acquisition protocol, or acquisition parameters. The system employs a dynamic ranking protocol as opposed to a static ranking protocol to determine ranking scores for the different image segmentations that control relative contributions of the different image segmentations in association with combining the different image segmentations into a fused segmentation for the anatomical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Tao Tan, Hongxiang Yi, Rakesh Mullick, Lehel Mihály Ferenczi, Gopal Biligeri Avinash, Borbála Deák-Karancsi, Balázs Péter Cziria, Laszlo Rusko
  • Patent number: 12249068
    Abstract: A health management system using contactless physiological measurement technology is disclosed. The health management system principally comprises a camera and a first processor, of which the camera is faced to a user for capturing a user image. The first processor is particularly configured to have a face detection unit and an activity index calculating unit therein. By such arrangement, after receiving the user image from the camera, the first processor detects a face portion from the user image, thereby subsequently extracting a PPG signal from the face portion. Consequently, after completing at least one process of the PPG signal, multiple indexes for describing a user's health activity are generated. The health activity indexes include health index, activity index, stability index, relaxation index, metabolism index, and balance index. Therefore, the first processor achieves an evaluation of the user's health activity state according to the forgoing health activity indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: FaceHeart Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuey-Huey Shiue, Yi-Chiao Wu, Li-Wen Chiu
  • Patent number: 12249407
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to use of a rapid-test-validation computing device to determine if a result of a rapid test device is valid and identify the result. The rapid-test-validation computing device captures images of the rapid test device and employs a first artificial intelligence mechanism to determine if the rapid test device is properly aligned in the images. The rapid-test-validation computing device then employs a second artificial intelligence mechanism to determine if a result of the rapid test device is valid or invalid. If the result is valid, the rapid-test-validation computing device employs a third artificial intelligence mechanism to determine and present an objective output of the rapid test device result to a user; otherwise, the rapid-test-validation computing device presents a notification to the user that the rapid test device result is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: INBIOS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: James William Needham
  • Patent number: 12249084
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods used to register medical image data with anatomical positions are disclosed. The image data is captured by an imaging system over a period of time. The positions are determined by a tracking system over the period of time. The positions are averaged to determine an average position of the anatomy, which is then used for registration of the image data with the anatomy. Registration based on the average position can then be used to enhance the quality of 3D images of the anatomy, as well as to improve navigation for a surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Pahl
  • Patent number: 12247830
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring signal loss in a fiber optic cable. The tail ends of reference and test fiber optic cables are illuminated with a diffuse light. The head end of each of the reference and test fiber optic cables are positioned in a measurement area. A core imager captures an image of the core of each head-end while it is in the measurement area. Reference and test radiant fluxes emitted from the reference and test head-ends are determined from the respective core images. The relative signal loss of the test fiber optic cable is then determined by comparing the test radiant flux to the reference radiant flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: David Matthew Berg, Stefan Wolfgang Kramel, David Andrew Pastel, Michael Brian Webb
  • Patent number: 12249111
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to cause a learning model that is used to extract a region of interest from an input image, to perform learning in response to an input of a pseudo image generated in a case where a pixel value of at least a part of an original image obtained by imaging a subject is changed, as data for learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 12249415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiopharmaceutical distribution image generation system and method using deep learning and, more specifically, to a radiopharmaceutical distribution image generation system and method using deep learning, wherein dynamic medical images collected from multiple patients and a time-radiation dose distribution curve for each organ can be learnt through a deep learning network and a spatial distribution image of a radiopharmaceutical can be generated from a static medical image acquired from a specific patient. According to the present invention, even when a medical image is acquired only for a specific time after a radiopharmaceutical is injected into a patient, a spatial distribution image of the radiopharmaceutical can be acquired across the entire time by using the deep learning network, and quantitative analysis of the radiopharmaceutical can be performed by calculating a time-radiation dose distribution curve on the basis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Sang Keun Woo, Sang Moo Lim, Kyo Chul Lee, Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 12249179
    Abstract: A system for screening persons' temperatures comprises an imaging device configured to generate imagery data, including infrared image data, of a first scene and a second scene. The system receives imagery data from the first scene, identifies persons in the scene using the imagery data, and determines each person's temperature. The system further compares the persons' temperatures to a threshold and indicates a person should be directed to the second scene if the person's temperature is above a threshold. Subsequently, the system determines and compares the person's temperature in the second scene and provides an indication if the person's temperature exceeds a second threshold. Further, a confidence factor can be associated with determinations of persons' temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew F. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12242935
    Abstract: A system and method for image-based monitoring of an object inserted into a patient is disclosed. A model can be trained for an object configured to be inserted into a patient as part of a medical procedure, the trained model being generated from one or more machine learning algorithms that are trained on annotated images of the object with spatial information of the object. An imaging computer system can receive one or more images of the object inserted within the patient captured by an imaging device positioned external to the patient. The imaging computer system can further determine, based on applying the trained model to the one or more images of the object, current spatial information of the object within the patient. A display can output the one or more images and the current spatial information of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Gabriel Fine, Nathan Silberman
  • Patent number: 12243228
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for image data acquisition. The method may include obtaining image data of a subject including a first type of tissue and a second type of tissue. The method may include determining, based on the image data of the subject, a target portion including at least a portion of at least one of the first type of tissue or the second type of tissue. The method may include determining, based at least in part on the target portion represented in the image data, a scan mode corresponding to the target portion. The method may include causing an imaging device to acquire, based on the scan mode, image data of the target portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Xin, Tingrong Shi
  • Patent number: 12243230
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate, among other things, to unmixing more than three stains, while preserving the biological constraints of the biomarkers. Unlimited numbers of markers may be unmixed from a limited-channel image, such as an RGB image, without adding any mathematical complicity to the model. Known co-localization information of different biomarkers within the same tissue section enables defining fixed upper bounds for the number of stains at one pixel. A group sparsity model may be leveraged to explicitly model the fractions of stain contributions from the co-localized biomarkers into one group to yield a least squares solution within the group. A sparse solution may be obtained among the groups to ensure that only a small number of groups with a total number of stains being less than the upper bound are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Srinivas Chukka, Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 12243286
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting a pattern image, and more particularly, a pattern image detection method and a pattern image detection apparatus for effectively detecting a pattern of a template image from a target image. The pattern image detection method and the pattern image detection apparatus can provide an effect of quickly and accurately detecting the pattern of the template image from the target image while reducing the amount of computation for detecting the pattern of the template image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Fourth Logic Incorporated
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Song, Kang Cho
  • Patent number: 12242715
    Abstract: An exemplary apparatus according to this disclosure includes at least a display, a processor, and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The processor generates a display data structure comprising a plurality of visual elements, configures a display device to display the visual elements, receives an activation of an event handler of the plurality of event handlers, wherein receiving the activation further comprises receiving a user selection of a visual element of the plurality of visual elements that is linked to the event handler, and executes the algorithm module associated with the activated event handler comprising an image processing module configured to receive an initial image and output a modified image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Pramana, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanth Perugupalli, Christopher Goel
  • Patent number: 12241954
    Abstract: A method and system for MRI may be provided. A plurality of signals of a subject generated using an MRI device may be acquired. Each signal may correspond to a set of values in a plurality of signal dimensions of signal acquisition. A primary signal dimension associated with a signal representation of the subject among the plurality of signal dimensions may be determined. A first value and a second value relating to the signal representation may be determined based on the plurality of signals. The first value may represent the signal representation along a first direction of the primary signal dimension, the second value may represent the signal representation along a second direction of the primary signal dimension, and the first direction may be opposite to the second direction. A value of a quantitative parameter of the subject may be determined based on the first value and the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Yongquan Ye
  • Patent number: 12243283
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an output signal characterizing a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of an image. The method includes: determining a first intermediate output signal from a machine learning system, wherein the first intermediate output signal characterizes a semantic segmentation and/or an instance segmentation of the image; adapting parameters of the machine learning system based on a loss function, wherein the loss function characterizes an entropy or a cross-entropy of the first intermediate output signal; determining the output signal from the machine learning system based on the image and the adapted parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi, Jan Hendrik Metzen, Robin Hutmacher
  • Patent number: 12243633
    Abstract: An apparatus (1), for use in conjunction with a medical imaging device (2) having an imaging device controller (4) that displays a graphical user interface (GUI) (8) including a preview image viewport (9), includes at least one electronic processor (20) programmed to: perform an image analysis (38) on a preview image displayed in the preview image viewport to generate preview-derived image label information; extract GUI-derived image label information from the GUI excluding the preview image displayed in the preview image viewport; and output an alert (30) when the preview-derived image label information and the GUI-derived image label information are not consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Buelow, Tanja Nordhoff, Tim Philipp Harder, Hrishikesh Narayanrao Deshpande, Olga Starobinets
  • Patent number: 12243231
    Abstract: A computer apparatus and method for identifying and visualizing tumors in a histological image and measuring a tumor margin are provided. A CNN is used to classify pixels in the image according to whether they are determined to relate to nontumorous tissue, or one or more classes for tumorous tissue. Segmentation is carried out based on the CNN results to generate a mask that marks areas occupied by individual tumors. Summary statistics for each tumor are computed and supplied to a filter which edits the segmentation mask by filtering out tumors deemed to be insignificant. Optionally, the tumors that pass the filter may be ranked according to the summary statistics, for example in order of clinical relevance or by a sensible order of review for a pathologist. A visualization application can then display the histological image having regard to the segmentation mask, summary statistics and/or ranking. Tumor masses extracted by resection are painted with an ink to highlight its surface region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Walter Georgescu
  • Patent number: 12239504
    Abstract: Methods for orthodontic treatment planning include modifying a digital picture of a patient based on a tooth model produced during simulated orthodontic treatment after movement of at least one model tooth to produce a modified digital image depicting the at least one model tooth after movement. The method includes matching and morphing information from the digital picture into the modified digital image. Modifying includes matching a model tooth in the T1 model to a tooth in the digital picture and morphing that information into the modified digital image. Morphing may include projecting a model tooth in the T1 model to an image plane of the digital picture and projecting a model tooth from an intermediate T model to the image plane. Parameterization of the projections of each model may be used to develop a pixel correspondence map, which is usable during rendering of a tooth in the modified digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ormco Corporation
    Inventors: Evan Yifeng Tsai, Bindu Saran A. p. a., Barteld Wind
  • Patent number: 12236588
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for predicting the likelihood an embryo will produce a bovine male offspring by processing video image data derived from video of a target embryo. The method includes receiving image data derived from video of a target embryo taken at substantially real-time frame speed during an embryo observation period of time. The video contains recorded morphokinetic movement of the target embryo occurring during the embryo observation period of time. The movement is represented in the received image data and the received image data is processed using a model generated utilizing machine learning and correlated embryo outcome data to predict the likelihood the target embryo will produce a bovine male offspring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Emgenisys, Inc.
    Inventors: Cara Elizabeth Wessels Wells, Russell Killingsworth
  • Patent number: 12236547
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for accomplishing fast and accurate 3D registration of curves and surfaces using local differential information, i.e., normals and tangents. In an embodiment, a method solves the curve-vs-surface alignment problem either by using a purely online search scheme, or by taking advantage of the availability of a pre-operative model, which often happens in medical procedures, to further speed-up the computational search by performing offline processing of the pre-operative bone model. The disclosed method is also extended to solve the curve-vs-curve and surface-vs-surface alignment problems, which also have important applications in medical procedures such as arthroscopy and arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
    Inventors: João Pedro de Almeida Barreto, Carolina dos Santos Raposo
  • Patent number: 12236595
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: ELUCID BIOIMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Buckler, Kjell Johnson, Xiaonan Ma, Keith A. Moulton, David S. Paik