BRAIN FUNCTION DECODING PROCESS AND SYSTEM

• US 20100249573A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Donald H. Marks
• Original Assignee: Donald H. Marks
• Inventors: Marks, Donald H.
• Application Number:
  US12/731,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20100249573A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/411
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1176 Recognition of faces
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/4806 Functional imaging of brain activation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition

Abstract

The present invention provides a process of correlating cognitive response to a stimulus by collecting neural activity data from one or more subjects while the subject is exposed to a stimulus. A unique three-dimensional cognitive engram representative of the neural activity caused by the stimulus is then plotted. A unique three-dimensional cognitive engram with biometric data representative of said stimulus is then correlated.

Claims

16. A process of correlating cognitive response to a stimulus of an image of a person comprising:

collecting stimulated neural activity data from said subject while said subject views the image of the person;

plotting a unique three-dimensional cognitive engram representative of the stimulated neural activity caused by said stimulus; and

correlating said unique three-dimensional cognitive engram with data representative of said image obtained from biometric facial recognition software.

17. A system for capturing biometric data comprising:

an electronic camera to capture an image or at least a portion of the face of a person;

a microprocessor coupled to said camera, said microprocessor processing said image to generate biometric data representative of said face.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising a database for storing said biometric data.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising a computer in electronic communication with said database, said computer configured to compare said biometric data in said database to biometric data from said camera.

20. The system of claim 18 wherein said database includes a cognitive engram associated with said biometric data.

24. The database of claim 21 wherein said biometric data is captured by the system of claim 17.

21. A database comprising:

biometric data representative of the image of the face of a person;

a cognitive engram representative of said image, said cognitive engram associated with said biometric data.

1. A process of correlating cognitive response to a stimulus comprising:

collecting neural activity data from one or more subjects while said subject is exposed to a stimulus;

plotting a unique three-dimensional cognitive engram representative of the neural activity caused by said stimulus; and

correlating said unique three-dimensional cognitive engram with biometric data representative of said stimulus.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein said biometric data is derived from a photographic or video image.

3. The process of claim 2 wherein said biometric data is from biometric facial recognition software.

4. The process of claim 1 wherein said stimulus is sensory.

5. The process of claim 1 wherein said stimulus is viewing an image.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein said subject is a human.

7. The process of claim 1 wherein said data are collected by magnetic resonance imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance angiography, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computerized tomography, positron emission tomography, electroencephalogram, magnetic encephalogram, or combinations thereof.

8. The process of claim 1 wherein said data are collected as a plurality of tomographic scans compiled as two-dimensional slices.

9. The process of claim 1 further comprising performing image noise removal from said data prior to plotting said cognitive engram.

10. The process of claim 1 further comprising performing an operation on said stimulated data prior to plotting said cognitive engram, said operation selected from the group consisting of:

correcting for subject movement artifact, reprocessing sequential images, blood oxygen level dependency BOLD consideration and statistical deformation modeling.

11. The process of claim 1 further comprising harvesting subject movement artifact overlap data for said stimulated data prior to plotting said cognitive engram.

12. The process of claim 1 wherein said stimulated data are derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

13. The process of claim 14 wherein said functional magnetic resonance imaging is correlated with data obtained from positron emission tomography, computerized tomography, magnetic resonance angiography, magnetic resonance spectroscopy or combinations thereof.

14. The process of claim 1 wherein said data are derived from arterial spin labeling and dynamic susceptibility weighted contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

15. The process of claim 1 wherein said data are derived from magnetization transfer and diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging with whole brain tissue histogram analysis.

22. The database of claim 21 wherein said cognitive engram is an engram representative of recognition of said face.

23. The database of claim 21 wherein said cognitive engram is representative of no recognition of said face.

23-1. The database of claim 22 wherein said cognitive engram is representative of a truthful response.