Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Bd Kiestra B.v.

Jean-Marc Volle

Raphael Rodolphe Marcelpoil

John Thulin Page

Cedrick Orny

Carmelo Tricoli

Mathieu Fernandes

Martijn Kleefstra

Franciscus Feijen

Mariska Okkema-Van Der Lei

Gerard Mulder

Eelke Johannes Veeninga

An apparatus that configures a culture plate for precisely assigning coordinates to a selected colony by assigning fiducials to the culture plate using simple mechanical techniques. The fiducials correspond to the plate center and the center of a barcode label applied to the side of the culture plate by the apparatus. The apparatus then deploys mechanisms to apply coordinates to colonies identified by the user relative to the fiducials. One such mechanism is a webcam pointed at the culture plate that allows a technician to mark the colonies on a display using a computer mouse or equivalent cursor. Another mechanism deploys a laser pointer directed at the colony wherein the apparatus assigns coordinates to the location of the colony onto which the laser pointer is directed. In a third mechanism, the user views the surface of the culture plate through a viewfinder and manually registers coordinates when the view finder cross hairs are over a target colony. The selected colonies are assigned precise coordinates with reference to the two fiducials. Software is provided such that pixels in the image of the culture plate correspond to the coordinates of the culture dish relative to the fiducials.

Method and system for locating a bacterial colony on a culture plate

Cartridge imaging background device

Systems and methods for imaging and image-based analysis of test devices can include a background device for a lateral flow assay test strip. In one aspect, the background device can include a test strip portion sized and shaped to guide placement, on the background device, of the lateral flow assay test strip; a background portion at least partially surrounding the test strip portion; and one or more features of the background portion. The one or more features can include line detection fiducials, position fiducials, modulation transfer function fiducials, motion blur detection fiducials, and/or RGB balanced areas for evaluation of lighting conditions.

Systems and methods for imaging and image-based analysis of test devices

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Jean-Marc Volle