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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2005
Applicants:
Shmuel Aharon, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Leo Grady, Yardley, PA (US);
Thomas Schiwietz, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Shmuel Aharon, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Leo Grady, Yardley, PA (US);
Thomas Schiwietz, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A manifold learning technique is applied to the problem of discriminating an object boundary between neighboring pixels/voxels in an image. The manifold learning technique is referred to as locality preserving projections. The application is for multi-channel images, which may include registered images/volumes, a time series of images/volumes, images obtained using different pulse sequences or contrast factors, radar and color photographs.