Adaptive image processing in assisted reproductive imaging modalities
AssigneeCycle Clarity, LLC
InventorJohn Anthony Schnorr
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Abstract
Adaptive image processing, image analysis, pattern recognition, and time-to-event prediction in various imaging modalities associated with assisted reproductive technology. The reference image may be processed according to one or more adaptive processing frameworks for de-speckling or noise processing of ultrasound images. The subject image is processed according to various computer vision techniques for object detection, recognition, annotation, segmentation, and classification of reproductive anatomy, such as follicles, ovaries and the uterus. An image processing framework may also analyze secondary data along with subject image data to analyze time-to-event progression of the subject image.
Claims20
A method for processing digital images in assisted reproductive technologies, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more digital images of a reproductive anatomy of a patient through one or more imaging modalities;
- processing the one or more digital images to detect one or more reproductive anatomical structures;
- processing the one or more digital images to annotate, segment, or classify one or more anatomical features of the one or more reproductive anatomical structures;
- analyzing the one or more anatomical features according to at least one linear or non-linear framework;
- and,
- predicting at least one time-to-event outcome of an assisted reproductive procedure according to the at least one linear or non-linear framework, the at least one time-to-event outcome comprising an egg retrieval date.
A method of image processing for clinical planning in assisted reproductive technologies, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more digital images of a reproductive anatomy of a patient through one or more imaging modalities;
- processing the one or more digital images to detect one or more reproductive anatomical structures;
- processing the one or more digital images to annotate, segment, or classify one or more anatomical features of the one or more reproductive anatomical structures;
- analyzing the one or more anatomical features according to at least one linear or non-linear framework;
- predicting at least one time-to-event outcome of an assisted reproductive procedure according to the at least one linear or non-linear framework;
- and,
- generating one or more clinical recommendations associated with the assisted reproductive procedure, the one or more clinical recommendations comprising a recommendation for timing of egg retrieval.
A method for clinical management of infertility, comprising:
- obtaining ovarian ultrasound images of a subject's ovarian follicles using an ultrasound device;
- analyzing, according to at least one linear or non-linear framework, the ovarian ultrasound images to annotate, segment, or classify one or more anatomical features of the subject's ovarian follicles to predict a time-to-event outcome, the time-to-event outcome comprising an egg retrieval date;
- and,
- generating one or more clinical recommendations for an assisted reproductive procedure the one or more clinical recommendations comprising a recommendation for timing of egg retrieval.
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