Inventor

Gareth Funka-Lea

Inventor

Cranbury, NJ, US

Overview

2006–2019

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 23 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general54%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding20%

G06KGraphical data reading12%

A61BDiagnosis7%

G06FElectric digital data processing7%

PatentTitleYear

10,206,646Method and system for extracting centerline representation of vascular structures in medical images via optimal paths in computational flow fields2019 10,210,612Method and system for machine learning based estimation of anisotropic vessel orientation tensor2019 10,115,039Method and system for machine learning based classification of vascular branches2018 9,349,197'Left ventricle epicardium estimation in medical diagnostic imaging'2016 9,292,921'Method and system for contrast inflow detection in 2D fluoroscopic images'2016 9,196,049'Method and system for regression-based 4D mitral valve segmentation from 2D+t magnetic resonance imaging slices'2015 9,147,268'Subtraction of projection data in medical diagnostic imaging'2015 9,129,417'Method and system for coronary artery centerline extraction'2015 9,014,423'Method and system for catheter tracking in fluoroscopic images using adaptive discriminant learning and measurement fusion'2015 9,014,449'Method and system for segmentation and removal of pulmonary arteries, veins, left atrial appendage'2015 8,923,590'Method and system for 3D cardiac motion estimation from single scan of C-arm angiography'2014 8,724,881'Method and system for precise segmentation of the left atrium in C-arm computed tomography volumes'2014 8,666,477'Method and system for tracking of a virtual electrode on a coronary sinus catheter in fluoroscopic images'2014 8,644,576'Method and system for multi-part left atrium segmentation in C-arm computed tomography volumes using shape constraints'2014 8,582,848'System and method for detection of acoustic shadows and automatic assessment of image usability in 3D ultrasound images'2013 8,170,321'System and method for contour tracking in cardiac phase contrast flow MR images'2012 8,150,133'System and method for automatic registration of 4D (3D plus time) renal perfusion MRI data'2012 8,073,252'Sparse volume segmentation for 3D scans'2011 7,729,537'Editing of presegemented images/volumes with the multilabel random walker or graph cut segmentations'2010 7,715,627'Automatic determination of the standard cardiac views from volumetric data acquisitions'2010 7,672,540'Nonrigid registration of cardiac perfusion MR images using adaptive local template matching'2010 7,634,123'CT/MRI heart isolation using a graph cut algorithm'2009 7,127,093'Integrated image registration for cardiac magnetic resonance perfusion data'2006

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2006–2019Based in Cranbury, NJ, US· patent location history

2009–2013Patents assigned to SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS (5)· patent assignee history

2011–2016Patents assigned to FUNKA-LEA GARETH (12)· patent assignee history

2012–2016Patents assigned to SIEMENS AG (13)· patent assignee history

2014–2016Patents assigned to COMANICIU DORIN (8)· patent assignee history

2014–2016Patents assigned to BOESE JAN (5)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
SIEMENS AG	13	2012–2016
FUNKA-LEA GARETHself	12	2011–2016
COMANICIU DORIN	8	2014–2016
BOESE JAN	5	2014–2016
SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS	5	2009–2013

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Cranbury, New Jersey, US	23	2006–2019