Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,721,338 titled “Method and Apparatus for Segmentation and Registration of Longitudinal Images.”
The described invention provides systems and methods for detecting and segmenting a lesion from longitudinal, time series or multi-parametric imaging by utilizing spectral embedding-based active contour. In addition, the described invention further provides systems and methods for registering time series data by utilizing reduced-dimension eigenvectors derived from spectral embedding of feature scenes.
The co-inventor is Shannon Agner, a former graduate student of Madabhushi’s and currently a resident of pediatric neurology at the University of Washington in St Louis.