Inventor · Potomac, MD, US

Ronald M. Summers

18Patents
8h-index
35Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 18, 1998 → Jun 8, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6246784A Method for segmenting medical images and detecting surface anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 316 Expired
US6345112B1 Method for segmenting medical images and detecting surface anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 111 Expired
US6556696B1 Method for segmenting medical images and detecting surface anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 104 Expired
US7260250B2 Computer-aided classification of anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 77 Expired
US7454045B2 Determination of feature boundaries in a digital representation of an anatomical structure Physics 18 Expired
US8023710B2 Virtual colonoscopy via wavelets Physics 12 Active
US7646904B2 Computer-aided classification of anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 11 Active
US7440601B1 Automated identification of ileocecal valve Physics 8 Active
US7570986B2 Teniae coli guided navigation and registration for virtual colonoscopy Physics 8 Active
US8023703B2 Hybrid segmentation of anatomical structure Physics 4 Active
US8340381B2 Hybrid segmentation of anatomical structure Physics 3 Active
US10215830B2 Automated cancer detection using MRI Physics 3 Active
US11200667B2 Detection of prostate cancer in multi-parametric MRI using random forest with instance weighting and MR prostate segmentation by deep learning with holistically-nested networks Physics 2 Active
US8175348B2 Segmenting colon wall via level set techniques Physics 2 Active
US7570802B2 Automated centerline detection algorithm for colon-like 3D surfaces Physics 1 Expired
US8189890B2 Computer-aided classification of anomalies in anatomical structures Physics 1 Active
US11195280B2 Progressive and multi-path holistically nested networks for segmentation Physics 0 Active
US11583239B2 Method and system of building hospital-scale chest X-ray database for entity extraction and weakly-supervised classification and localization of common thorax diseases Physics 0 Active

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