CISTO Engineer Receives
Patent and GSFC IS&T Award
 |
James C. Tilton, a member
of CISTO’s Information
Sciences and Technology (IS&T)
Research group, recently
received notice that the
United States Patent and
Trademark Office has issued
patent US 6,895,115 B2, “Method
for Implementation of Recursive
Hierarchical Segmentation
(RHSEG) on Parallel Computers,” to
NASA for his invention. This
patented innovation enables
the efficient parallel implementation
of the pre-processing software
that Tilton developed for
hierarchical segmentation
(HSEG) analysis of single
band, multispectral, or hyperspectral
imagery data at resolutions
up to 8000 x 8000 pixels.
Image
to left: Deputy Center Director
Chris Scolese (left) presents
Jim Tilton (right) with the
2005 Excellence in Information
Science and Technology Award
(Photo credit: Pat Izzo). |
Originally developed for improving the analysis
of Earth sciences and remote sensing imagery,
Tilton’s work also has applications for
aircraft and satellite remote sensing, medical
imaging, drug development, x-ray imaging, data
mining, facial recognition, and thermal imaging.
Tilton has worked with GSFC’s Office
of Technology Transfer and Office of Patent
Counsel to disseminate the RHSEG software to
other organizations inside and outside NASA,
such as Bartron Medical Imaging, LLC, of New
Haven, CT. The company uses RHSEG in their
commercial product, the Medical Segmentation
(MED-SEG) HSEG System, for the diagnosis and
management of disease through enhanced medical
imaging.
Tilton also received the Fifth Annual Excellence
in Information Science and Technology Award
in May 2005. The award is presented annually
to the GSFC employee(s) who best exhibits broad,
significant contributions to GSFC programs
or projects in IS&T.
http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov/RHSEG/index.html
http://www.bartron.ws/
http://isandtcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/awards/award.html |
