X-ray Film Analysis (e.g., Radiography) Patents (Class 382/132)
  • Patent number: 11837352
    Abstract: For training a machine learning system for representing a patient body a plurality of stored medical imaging data sets each representing at least a part of a respective patient are obtained. A first one of the plurality of stored medical imaging data sets represents a different part of the patient body than a second one of the plurality of stored medical imaging data sets. A plurality of landmarks in the stored medical imaging data sets are estimated, and each of the stored medical imaging data sets are aligned to a predefined pose using the plurality of landmarks. A plurality of points in the aligned medical imaging data sets are sampled, and the machine learning system is trained based on at least the plurality of points. The learned parameters of the machine learning system are then stored and used in a method for inferring a body representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Birgi Tamersoy, Ankur Kapoor, Vivek Singh, Brian Teixeira
  • Patent number: 11830604
    Abstract: Computer systems and computer-implemented analysis methods may be used for assistance in planning and/or performing a medical procedure, such as percutaneous nephrolithotomy or percutaneous nephrolithotripsy. The method may include receiving one or more radiographic images of an anatomical structure of a patient, generating a display of the radiographic image(s), generating at least one request for user input to identify features of the anatomical structure, receiving user input identifying the features of the anatomical structure, identifying at least one access plan based on the received user input, and generating a display of the identified access plan(s) associated with the radiographic image(s). The method may include generating a patient template that indicates an insertion site according to the identified access plan(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry T. Long, Timothy P. Harrah, Brandon W. Craft, Elizabeth A. Stokley, Sebastian Koerner, Erik Sperry, Chad Schneider, Mark Hera
  • Patent number: 11819355
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for mammogram imaging. In one example, a method for an x-ray mammography system includes determining, based on a pre-exposure image of a subject acquired with the x-ray mammography system before acquisition of one or more main images, that the subject has an implant; automatically adjusting one or more imaging parameters in response to determining that the subject has the implant; and acquiring the one or more main images with the adjusted one or more imaging parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Jorge Corsino Espino, Olivier Ernoult, Vincent Jonas Bismuth, Fanny Patoureaux, Karima Santi, Maria Belen Aguirre Larrieu
  • Patent number: 11803754
    Abstract: A spinal surgery training process includes the steps of capturing a plurality of 2D images for each of a plurality of spines, generating a curve of each spine from the respective 2D images based on locations of select vertebrae in each of the spines, grouping the spines into one of a number of groups based on similarity to produce groups of spines having similarities, performing the capturing, generating, determining and grouping steps at least once prior to surgery and at least once after surgery to produce pre-operative groups and their resultant post-operative groups, and assigning surgical methods and a probability to each of the post-operative groups indicating the probability that a spinal shape of the post-operative group can be achieved using the surgical methods. An outcome prediction process for determining surgical methods can be implemented once the training process is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC.
    Inventor: Saba Pasha
  • Patent number: 11783916
    Abstract: In acquisition of spatial transcriptomic information, a plurality of images representing a common field of view of a sample are obtained and registered. Each pixel of the registered images is decoded by identifying a code word from a plurality of code words in a code book that provides a best match to data values in the plurality of registered images for the pixel. For each code word identified as a best match and each pixel, whether a bit ratio for an image word for the pixel meets a threshold for the code word is determined. The image word is formed from the data values in the plurality of registered images for the pixel. For at least one pixel that is determined to meet the threshold, a gene associated with the code word is determined. Pixels for which the bit ratio does not meet the threshold are screened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yun-Ching Chang, Dan Xie, Chloe Kim
  • Patent number: 11769250
    Abstract: A medical care support device includes an acquisition unit that acquires medical information including medical image data representing a medical image obtained by imaging a bone of a subject and age information representing an age of the subject in a case where the medical image is imaged, a derivation unit that derives presence or absence of a fracture in a growth plate of the subject, based on the medical information acquired by the acquisition unit and a learned model learned in advance using a plurality of pieces of learning medical information including the medical image data and the age information, and a warning information output unit that outputs warning information representing a warning in a case where the growth plate of the subject is fractured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 11744537
    Abstract: A compression plate of a mammography apparatus has an upper surface which is irradiated with radiation, a lower surface which is opposite to the upper surface and comes into contact with the breast, and a surface which is parallel to the upper surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. In the compression plate, a compression plate scale for identifying an in-plane position of each surface is given to any one of the surfaces. A first display control unit of a console performs control to display a radiographic image captured by the mammography apparatus on a display unit. A second display control unit of the console performs control to display an image scale which indicates a position on the radiographic image corresponding to the in-plane position of the compression plate on the radiographic image displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11737826
    Abstract: A system for determining accuracy of a surgical procedure to implant an implant on a patient bone. The system including at least one computing device configured to perform the following steps. Receive preoperative patient data including preoperative images of the patient bone and planned implant position and orientation data. Receive postoperative patient data including postoperative images of the patient bone and an implant implanted on the patient bone. Segment the patient bone and the implant from the postoperative images of the patient bone and the implant. Register separately the patient bone and the implant from the postoperative images to the patient bone from the preoperative images. And compare an implanted position and orientation of the implant from the postoperative images relative to the patient bone from the preoperative images to the planned implant position and orientation data relative to the patient bone from the preoperative images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MAKO SURGICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael de Souza, Emily Hampp, Laura Scholl
  • Patent number: 11742073
    Abstract: Method and system for grading a medical image. For example, a system for grading a medical image comprising a grading network configured to provide a grading result corresponding to the medical image based on at least the medical image and/or a list of lesion candidates generated by a lesion identification network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie-Zhi Cheng, Zaiwen Gong, Zhiqiang He, Yiqiang Zhan, Xiang Sean Zhou
  • Patent number: 11733095
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an image sensor begins by illuminating a portion of the image sensor with an input light spectrum, where the input light spectrum includes light of known wavelength and intensity. The method continues by sampling an output for each optical sensor of the image sensor, where each optical sensor is associated with one or more optical filters and where each optical filter being associated with a group of optical filters of a plurality of groups of optical filters. Each optical filter of a group of optical filters is configured to pass light in a different wavelength range and at least some optical filters in different groups of the plurality of groups of optical filters are configured to pass light in substantially a same wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: IMEC
    Inventors: Nicolaas Tack, Andy Lambrechts, Luc Haspeslagh
  • Patent number: 11727562
    Abstract: A computer-implemented image analysis method and system. The method comprises: quantifying one or more features segmented and identified from a medical image of a subject; extracting clinically relevant features from non-image data pertaining to the subject; assessing the features segmented from the medical image and the features extracted from the non-image data with a trained machine learning model; and outputting one or more results of the assessing of the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Curvebeam AI Limited.
    Inventor: Yu Peng
  • Patent number: 11727559
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product to determine a likelihood of pneumothorax of a patient, the method including assessing a digital image of a chest x-ray of the patient, applying a standard detection pipeline to the digital image, applying a confounding factor detector to the digital image, and applying a high-resolution detection pipeline to the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Benedikt Graf, Yiting Xie, Arkadiusz Sitek, Amin Katouzian
  • Patent number: 11710231
    Abstract: A method, applied to an apparatus for mammographic multi-view mass identification, includes receiving a main image, a first auxiliary image, and a second auxiliary image. The main image and the first auxiliary image are images of a breast of a person, and the second auxiliary image is an image of another breast of the person. The method further includes detecting the nipple location based on the main image and the first auxiliary image; generating a first probability map of the main image based on the main image, the first auxiliary image, and the nipple location; generating a second probability map of the main image based on the main image, the second auxiliary image, and the nipple location; and generating and outputting a fused probability map based on the first probability map and the second probability map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PING AN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhicheng Yang, Zhenjie Cao, Yanbo Zhang, Peng Chang, Mei Han, Jing Xiao
  • Patent number: 11707334
    Abstract: A robotic catheter procedure system includes a bedside system and a workstation. The bedside system includes an actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to a percutaneous device. The workstation includes a user interface and a control system configured to be operatively coupled to the user interface, the bedside system, and a medical imaging system. The control system is responsive to a first input and to a second input, and the user interface receives the second input from a user. The control system is configured to generate a first control signal to the medical imaging system based on the first input, and the medical imaging system captures at least one image in response to the first control signal. The control system is configured to generate a second control signal to the actuating mechanism based on the second input, and the actuating mechanism causes movement of the percutaneous device in response to the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: Tal Wenderow, John Murphy, David Handler, Nicholas Kottenstette
  • Patent number: 11678855
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing coronary vessels and a corresponding method are provided in which simulated pullback data obtained from (non-invasively) acquired diagnostic images is co-registered with invasively acquired intravascular pullback data and the co-registration is used to identify disparities in the pullback data obtained using the two modalities. These disparities allow for deriving further information about the vessel geometry and/or the blood flow through the vessel. They may therefore be used to improve the physiological model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christian Haase, Michael Grass, Martijn Anne Van Lavieren
  • Patent number: 11669792
    Abstract: A medical scan triaging system is operable to train a computer vision model and to generate abnormality data indicating abnormality probabilities for medical scans via the computer vision model. A first subset of medical scans is determined by identifying medical scans with abnormality probabilities greater than a first probability value of a triage probability threshold. A second subset of medical scans is determined by identifying medical scans with abnormality probabilities less than the first probability value. An updated first subset of medical scans is determined by identifying medical scans with abnormality probabilities greater than a second probability value of an updated triage probability threshold. An updated second subset of the plurality of medical scans is determined by identifying medical scans with a abnormality probabilities less than the second probability value. The updated first subset of medical scans is transmitted to client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Enlitic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lyman, Li Yao, Eric C. Poblenz, Jordan Prosky, Ben Covington, Anthony Upton
  • Patent number: 11642180
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor configured to generate a position movement prediction field indicating prediction of a potential positional change of a branch path by a patient's biological activity for one or more branch paths based on a blood vessel image of a reference frame, correct guidewire information extracted from a blood vessel image of a target frame with respect to a catheter position of the reference frame, and select a branch path to dispose the guidewire information, among one or more branch paths of a blood vessel region based on the position movement prediction field and the corrected guidewire information; and a display configured to visualize the guidewire information on the selected branch path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: THE ASAN FOUNDATION, University of Ulsan Foundation For Industry Cooperation, Medipixel, Inc.
    Inventors: Jihoon Kweon, Young Eon Kim, Kyo Seok Song
  • Patent number: 11645357
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus, a computer device for convolution operation and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining input data of a network layer in a convolutional neural work; extracting each time a plurality of data points from the input data according to a preset step size; mapping the plurality of data points extracted each time to the same position at different depth levels of three-dimensional data to obtain rearranged data; and performing convolution operation on the rearranged data with a convolution kernel of a preset size to obtain a convolution result. Through the present solution, the operation efficiency of the convolutional neural network can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11636288
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a platform, device and process for digital pathology that enable multi-level annotation and visualization of histopathologic slides using a modular arrangement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The CNNs can be trained using pathology images (e.g., in some cases increasing the base of data by breaking larger fields of view into smaller ones) to learn features consistent with certain pathologies. The platform can use the CNNs to visually annotate pathology slides at an interface tool of a display device. The platform can automate the process of selection, as well as provide an opportunity for the pathologist to see a depiction of predicted results. The platform can use the CNNs to identify regions of interest on pathology slides. The interface tool can enable a predicted region of interest (ROI) type to be visually presented on a surface map showing the basis of the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    Inventors: Kevin Faust, Zoya Volynskaya, Ugljesa Djuric, Phedias Diamandis
  • Patent number: 11630874
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that are executable by a processor, the set of instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform operations comprising receiving an imaging study including a medical image of a patient; extracting image context from the imaging study; generating a search query based on the image context; sending the search query to a data source; receiving results of the query from a data source; and providing the results to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Thusitha Dananjaya De Silva Mabotuwana, Yuechen Qian, Ranjith Naveen Tellis, Gabriel Ryan Mankovich
  • Patent number: 11627259
    Abstract: A device comprising a circuitry configured to obtain a sequence of digital images from an image sensor; select a region of interest within a digital image of the sequence of digital images; perform motion compensation on the region of interest to obtain a motion compensated region of interest based on motion information obtained from the sequence of digital images and a predefined accumulated time interval; define a mask pattern based on the compensated region of interest; apply the mask pattern to an electronic light valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Markus Kamm
  • Patent number: 11625817
    Abstract: A methods and apparatuses for image processing are provided. The method may include acquiring initial image data from an image sensor. The method may further include deconstructing the initial image data in a plurality of image pyramid layers. The method may further include collapsing a first image pyramid layer with a second image pyramid layer in order to create an intermediate layer. The method may further include collapsing the intermediate layer with the subsequent image pyramid layer to create a new intermediate layer and generating the final image based on the new intermediate layer and a last image pyramid layer. A tone-mapping operator is applied to at least one of the intermediate layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Uygar Tuna, Murat Birinci, Petteri Kyrönlahti, Tapio Finnilä
  • Patent number: 11610344
    Abstract: An image interpretation support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of projection images obtained by tomosynthesis imaging in which a radiation is irradiated to a breast from different irradiation angles by a radiation source and a projection image is captured at each irradiation angle by a radiation detector; a first generation unit that generates a plurality of tomographic images on each of a plurality of tomographic planes of the breast from the plurality of projection images; a second generation unit that generates a synthetic two-dimensional image from a plurality of images among the plurality of projection images and the plurality of tomographic images; a detection unit that detects an object of interest candidate region estimated to include an object of interest from the synthetic two-dimensional image; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the object of interest is included in the object of interest candidate region on the basis of the plurality of tomog
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Junya Morita
  • Patent number: 11600003
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each unit region of the image data, a confidence that the unit region is an extraction subject, the confidence as the extraction subject being calculated for each unit region of the image data by inputting the image data into a trained model of a neural network that has been trained using images of an existing extraction subject or a region of interest as training data, a modification unit configured to modify a reference value of the confidence, which is used to extract a region of interest, an extraction unit configured to extract the region of interest on the basis of the calculated confidence of each unit region and the modified reference value, and a display unit configured to display the extracted region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11596790
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for treating chronic pains effectively are disclosed. The system is based on the use of randomly generated non-pulsed waveform between a frequency of 5 Hz to 2 KHz. The waveforms generated have characteristics which are pre-defined or based on the input and feedback provided by the patient and/or by the clinician, at the same time conforming to certain safety rules and precautions ensuring patient safety. This disclosure also describes a novel approach of implementing a secure memory stick which can be used to exchange data securely between one device and another device where device could be the device mentioned earlier, an off-line server, or a PC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Calmare Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sin-Min Chang, Santanu Das, Dae H. Han
  • Patent number: 11596376
    Abstract: A method for providing corrected x-ray images of a recording object and a correspondingly configured x-ray system are provided. In the method, a first x-ray image recorded prior to introducing a contrast agent and a second x-ray image of the recording object recorded after introducing the contrast agent are provided. A ring correction for eliminating ring artifacts is applied to the first x-ray image and the second x-ray image in each case. In order to provide corrected x-ray images with an improved image quality, provision is made with the ring correction of the first x-ray image for a ring image, which contains artifact data extracted from the first x-ray image, to be obtained and stored and for the ring correction of the second x-ray image for the ring image obtained with the ring correction of the first x-ray image to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Oxana Grünwald
  • Patent number: 11596352
    Abstract: A route selection assistance system enabling easy selection of a route of a living body lumen for delivering a medical instrument to a site within a living body via the living body lumen, a recording medium on which a route selection assistance program is recorded, and a route selection assistance method are disclosed. The route selection assistance system includes: a receiving section configured to receive an input of site information specifying a target site; an image obtaining section configured to obtain image information on a living body of a target patient; a route extracting section configured to extract a plurality of routes of a living body lumen; a ranking assigning section configured to assign rankings to the plurality of routes according to ease of delivery of the medical instrument and patient scores determined according to magnitude of a burden imposed on the target patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Haruhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11585765
    Abstract: A non-destructive inspection apparatus is provided. The non-destructive inspection apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store commands for performing predetermined operations, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute the commands. The at least one processor is configured to obtain information on a transmission amount of an X-ray by emitting the X-ray to a part of a bicycle, generate a gray scale image based on the information on the transmission, measure an amount of change in a gray value from one end to the other end of the part of the bicycle represented in the gray scale image along an extending direction of the part, and detect an area in which the amount of change in the gray value is equal to or greater than a threshold, as an abnormal area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WRIGHTBROTHERS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hee Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11580694
    Abstract: Radar, lidar, and other active 3D imaging techniques require large, heavy sensors that consume lots of power. Passive 3D imaging techniques based on feature matching are computationally expensive and limited by the quality of the feature matching. Fortunately, there is a robust, computationally inexpensive way to generate 3D images from full-motion video acquired from a platform that moves relative to the scene. The full-motion video frames are registered to each other and mapped to the scene coordinates using data about the trajectory of the platform with respect to the scene. The time derivative of the registered frames equals the product of the height map of the scene, the projected angular velocity of the platform, and the spatial gradient of the registered frames. This relationship can be solved in (near) real time to produce the height map of the scene from the full-motion video and the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Robert Sweeney
  • Patent number: 11564650
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pneumothorax detection method performed by a computing device. The method may comprise obtaining predicted pneumothorax information, predicted tube information, and a predicted spinal baseline with respect to an input image from a trained pneumothorax prediction model; determining at least one pneumothorax representative position for the predicted pneumothorax information and at least one tube representative position for the predicted tube information, in a prediction image in which the predicted pneumothorax information and the predicted tube information are displayed; dividing the prediction image into a first region and a second region by the predicted spinal baseline; and determining a region in which the at least one pneumothorax representative position and the at least one tube representative position exist among the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: LUNIT INC., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Min Chul Kim, Chang Min Park, Eui Jin Hwang
  • Patent number: 11562587
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for improvement of machine learning systems based on enhanced training data. An example method includes providing a visual concurrent display of a set of images of features, the features requiring classification by a reviewing user. The user interface is provided to enable the reviewing user to assign classifications to the images, the user interface being configured to create, read, update, and/or delete classifications. The user interface is responsive to the user, with the user response indicating at least two images with a single classification. The user interface is updated to represent the single classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Merative US L.P.
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Aviad Zlotnick
  • Patent number: 11562469
    Abstract: A system and method for image processing are provided. A pre-processed image may be obtained. The pre-processed image may be decomposed into a low-frequency image and a high-frequency image. At least one grayscale transformation range may be determined based on the low-frequency image. At least one grayscale transformation parameter may be determined based on the at least one grayscale transformation range. The low-frequency image may be transformed based on the at least one grayscale transformation parameter to obtain a transformed low-frequency image. A transformed image may be generated by reconstructing the transformed low-frequency image and the high-frequency image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunhua Jiang, Shurui Zhao, Hanyu Wang, Haihua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11557112
    Abstract: An apparatus for feature recognition of two-dimensional prints is illustrated. The apparatus comprise a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive a two-dimensional print of a part for manufacture, scale two-dimensional print so that the two-dimensional print is within a predetermined area, identify a curve feature of the two-dimensional print as a function of scaling of the two-dimensional print, wherein the curve feature comprises a plurality of line segments, and classify a line type of the curve feature using line observations as a function of the curve feature identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PROTOLABS, INC.
    Inventor: Shuji Usui
  • Patent number: 11556742
    Abstract: Techniques for training machine learning models for improved accuracy at classifying medical imaging data sets by trimming ambiguous samples from training data sets are described herein. In some embodiments, a machine learning model is trained using a data set, where a subset of the data set comprises data with a conflict between a first label based on an expert opinion and a second label based on a ground truth based on a medical examination. During some epochs of training the machine learning model, loss values for each data sample in the epoch are compared against a loss threshold, with data samples with corresponding loss values that exceed the loss threshold that also belong to the subclass trimmed from the data set for subsequent epochs of training. The loss threshold for the next epoch is then updated based on loss values of the trimmed data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dana Levanony, Tal Tlusty Shapiro
  • Patent number: 11540785
    Abstract: An X-ray image processing method, including obtaining a first X-ray image of an object including a plurality of materials including a first material and a second material; obtaining a first partial image generated by imaging the first material and a second partial image generated by imaging the first material overlapping the second material from the first X-ray image; obtaining first information related to a stereoscopic structure of the first material, based on the first partial image included in the first X-ray image; and obtaining second information about the second material based on the first information and the second partial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaemock Yl, Chaeyeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11534069
    Abstract: A method for determining a view angle of a thermal image from a user and generating a suggestion to enable the user for adaptive positioning of a subject for capturing the thermal image is provided. The method includes (i) receiving a thermal image of a body of a subject, (ii) automatically determining a view angle of the thermal image from a user using a view angle estimator, (iii) determining an angular adjustment to be made to a view position of the thermal imaging camera or a position of the subject by comparing the determined view angle with a required view angle as per thermal imaging protocol when the thermal image does not meet the required view angle and (iv) generating instructions to the user for adjusting the view position of the thermal imaging camera for capturing a new thermal image at the required view angle as per thermal imaging protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NIRAMAI HEALTH ANALYTIX PVT LTD
    Inventors: Siva Teja Kakileti, Geetha Manjunath, Himanshu J. Madhu
  • Patent number: 11532399
    Abstract: Methods and systems and computer readable media are provided for processing digitized radiology images of a patient's tissue to perform a tissue density assessment. A set of radiology images is analyzed with a tissue density image classifier, wherein the tissue density classifier includes a plurality of classifiers. A features vector is generated, for each processed image in the set of radiology images, based on the processing. The features vector is provided, for each processed image in the set of radiology images, to a tissue density classifier to obtain an output. A final tissue density score is assigned based on the output of the tissue density classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Merative US L.P.
    Inventors: Sun Young Park, Dustin M. Sargent
  • Patent number: 11517257
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing muscular biofeedback, comprising: facewear supporting biosensors arranged such that, in use, the biosensors are situated for detecting activity of a predetermined set of facial muscles; a feedback unit for providing biofeedback to a wearer of the facewear; and a control unit coupled to the biosensors and the feedback unit and arranged to identify patterns in the signals from the biosensors characteristic of one or more predefined imbalances in muscle activity between the left and right sides of the face; wherein the control unit is configured to, on identifying a pattern in the signals from biosensors characteristic of a first predefined imbalance in muscle activity between the left and right sides of the face, cause the feedback unit to provide biofeedback in correspondence with the imbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: EMTEQ LIMITED
    Inventor: Charles Nduka
  • Patent number: 11520771
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, storage media, and computing devices for updating a measurement are disclosed. One of the methods includes: detecting that an application device initiates a measurement update, wherein the measurement update includes at least one of: an object update that updates a measurement object, and a policy update that updates a policy; and performing measurement update processing upon verifying that the measurement update satisfies a predetermined condition, wherein the measurement update processing includes performing an update process on at least one of content included in an execution of a measurement process, and wherein the measurement process includes calculating a measurement object using a predetermined algorithm, comparing a calculation result with a pre-stored verification reference value, and determining that an integrity of the measurement object is not corrupted if a comparison result is consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yingfang Fu, Peng Xiao
  • Patent number: 11490868
    Abstract: Medical imaging methods for processing a three-dimensional (3D) image data set with two-dimensional X-ray images from an X-ray machine using a target function. Methods can include providing a 3D image data set of at least one examination zone in which anatomical structures are present, segmenting the image data set to provide a 3D vascular structure model and a 3D bone structure model, recording a first two-dimensional (2D) X-ray image containing at least a portion of the vascular structure and at least a portion of the bone structure, recording a second 2D X-ray image of the examination zone at a different contrast agent concentration, and subtracting the first and second 2D X-ray images to generate a subtraction image. An optimum projective geometry may then be determined using a three-part target function based on the 3D image data and the 2D X-ray images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ziehm Imaging GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas König, Klaus Hörndler, Marc Kachelriess, Michael Knaup
  • Patent number: 11495336
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for recording a health care event, optimizing medical procedures and calculating reimbursement. The method includes: acquiring metadata comprising a patient identifier, a practitioner identifier, a health care site identifier, an entry time and a medical reason for the health care event; receiving a reimbursement request; generating a procedures list based on the medical reason; selecting a procedure; generating a list of required data types and a list of required quality data for the procedure; acquiring raw data comprising the procedure, a medical device identifier, an entry time and one or more quality data from the medical device for the procedure; and calculating a reimbursement for the health care event based on the procedure, the medical device identifier, the required quality data and the quality data from the medical device. The method implements iterative learning using the collected data to determine optimal health care procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptive Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Anthony Piron, Arun Victor Jagga, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Thanh Vinh Vuong
  • Patent number: 11484275
    Abstract: A common area derivation unit derives a common area common to at least a part of a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions which are generated by causing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging in which a radiation source is moved relative to a detection unit to irradiate a subject with radiation at the plurality of radiation source positions according to movement of the radiation source. A display control unit emphasizes effective image areas, corresponding to the common area, of at least a part of a plurality of tomographic images representing a plurality of tomographic planes of the subject which are generated by reconstructing the plurality of projection images, or a composite two-dimensional image generated from the plurality of tomographic images, and displays at least the part of the tomographic images or the composite two-dimensional image on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • Patent number: 11468625
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for adjusting simulated image effects. In some embodiments, user interfaces for adjusting a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for displaying adjustments to a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for indicating an interference to adjusting simulated image effects is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Behkish J. Manzari, Richard Lawrence Baer, Arathi S. Bale, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Pavel Pivonka, Richard David Seely, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11455723
    Abstract: The present invention relates to deep learning implementations for medical imaging. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system for suggesting whether to obtain a second review after a first user has performed a manual review/analysis of a set of medical images from an initial medical screening. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a method and system for suggesting that a second radiologist reviews one or more cases/sets of medical images in response to a first radiologist's review of the case of medical images, based on the use of computer-aided analysis (for example using deep learning) on each case/set of medical images and the first radiologist's review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KHEIRON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Peter Kecskemethy, Tobias Rijken, Edith Karpati, Michael O'Neill, Andreas Heindl, Joseph Elliot Yearsley, Dimitrios Korkinof, Galvin Khara
  • Patent number: 11449991
    Abstract: An image processing method includes image inputting, auxiliary information inputting, image processing, feature quantity extracting, and discriminating. The image inputting is inputting a cell image. The auxiliary information inputting is inputting auxiliary information on a color of the cell image. The image processing is generating multiple processed images by performing a different image-processing process on the cell image based on the auxiliary information. The feature quantity extracting is extracting a feature quantity of a discrimination target from each of the multiple processed images. The discriminating is discriminating the discrimination target in the cell image based on the feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takehiko Sashida
  • Patent number: 11431901
    Abstract: An illustrative system constructs a map that associates pixel locations in a panoramic image to camera modules in a set of camera modules. The map may associate a first pixel location in the panoramic image to a first camera module in the set of camera modules and a second pixel location in the panoramic image to a second camera module in the set of camera modules. The second pixel location borders the first pixel location in the panoramic image. The system blends, based on at least one weight, a pixel value of the first pixel location captured by the first camera module with a pixel value of the second pixel location captured by the second camera module to determine a pixel value for a blended pixel in the panoramic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur van Hoff, Thomas M. Annau, Jens Christensen
  • Patent number: 11416994
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for biomedical image analysis. A method may include receiving a plurality of unannotated biomedical images, including a first image and a second image. The method may also include determining that the first image is in a first view and the second image is in a second view. The method may further include assigning the first image to a first processing path for the first orientation. The method may additionally include assigning the second image to a second processing path for the second view. The method may also include processing the first image in the first processing path in parallel with processing the second image in the second processing path. The first path may share processing parameters with the second path. The method may further include providing a diagnostic output based on the processing of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KEYAMED NA, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Gao, Hao-Yu Yang, Youbing Yin, Yue Pan, Xin Wang, Junjie Bai, Yi Wu, Kunlin Cao, Qi Song
  • Patent number: 11399792
    Abstract: A method, system and computer readable storage media for segmenting individual intra-oral measurements and registering said individual intraoral measurements to eliminate or reduce registration errors. An operator may use a dental camera to scan teeth and a trained deep neural network may automatically detect portions of the input images that can cause registration errors and reduce or eliminate the effect of these sources of registration errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
    Inventors: Stan Mandelkern, Joseph Lasker, Fred Duewer
  • Patent number: 11404158
    Abstract: An image viewer and method for using the same in a medical image management system are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Brigil Vincent, Tatsuo Kawanaka, Keiichi Morita, Prajeesh Prabhakaran, Maneesh Chirangattu
  • Patent number: 11394907
    Abstract: An imaging element outputs a display image with a low pixel count obtained as a result of thinning pixels included in the imaging element during the exposure period of a recording image with a high pixel count. A recording image correction unit receives an input of the recording image from a frame memory after an elapse of the exposure period, and corrects the pixel value of a defective pixel caused by the output of the display image from the imaging element, among pixels included in the recording image, by using the value of addition of the pixel values of display images output during the exposure period of the recording image, so that the pixel value of the defective pixel is corrected to the similar pixel value as that in the case of performing an exposure process for the exposure period of the recording image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Kenzaburo Seki