James Williams
27Patents
12h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 3, 1989 → Jul 10, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6351513B1 | Fluoroscopy based 3-D neural navigation based on co-registration of other modalities with 3-D angiography reconstruction data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 146 | Expired |
| US6389104B1 | Fluoroscopy based 3-D neural navigation based on 3-D angiography reconstruction data | Physics | 135 | Expired |
| US7715626B2 | System and method for vascular segmentation by Monte-Carlo sampling | Physics | 67 | Active |
| US6370421B1 | Density modulated catheter for use in fluoroscopy based 3-D neural navigation | Human Necessities | 53 | Expired |
| US7015907B2 | Segmentation of 3D medical structures using robust ray propagation | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6947040B2 | Vessel detection by mean shift based ray propagation | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US4955156A | Plant watering and root protection device | Human Necessities | 32 | Expired |
| US7198404B2 | Real-time acquisition of co-registered X-ray and optical images | Human Necessities | 23 | Expired |
| US7620501B2 | Artery-vein separation and vessel modeling | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US8010175B2 | Patient-specific coronary territory mapping | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US7787683B2 | Tree structure based 2D to 3D registration | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US8430445B1 | Impact protector for vehicle windshields | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Active |
| US7233330B2 | Organ wall analysis with ray-casting | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7889194B2 | System and method for in-context MPR visualization using virtual incision volume visualization | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US6528021B1 | Method and apparatus for eliminating odors and killing bacteria associated with emissions from sewer and grease trap vents | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US8073252B2 | Sparse volume segmentation for 3D scans | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US7602970B2 | System and method for Kalman filtering in vascular segmentation | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7256780B2 | Visualization of volume-rendered data with occluding contour multi-planar-reformats | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US6970594B2 | Visualization imaging system for curvilinear structures | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US11647971B2 | Lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system | Human Necessities | 3 | Active |
| US7894653B2 | Automatic organ detection using machine learning and classification algorithms | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US10354438B2 | Illumination in rendering of anatomy with functional information | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7746340B2 | Method and apparatus for generating a 2D image having pixels corresponding to voxels of a 3D image | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US11793474B2 | Lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US10369245B2 | System for treating emissions from a vehicle | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.