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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Applicants:
Punam Kumar Saha, Iowa City, IA (US);
Milan Sonka, Coralville, IA (US);
Inventors:
Punam Kumar Saha, Iowa City, IA (US);
Milan Sonka, Coralville, IA (US);
Assignee:
The University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is an apparatus and method for computing regional statistical distributions or characteristics of one or more quantitative measures over a mean anatomic space for one or more predefined populations and uses this statistical distributions/characteristics to study, research or understand the regional response of a disease or a treatment process and to regionally assess clinical status in patient data from an unknown population for diagnostic purposes.