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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2019
Nantomics, Llc, Culver City, CA (US);
Bing Song, La Canada, CA (US);
Liudmila A. Beziaeva, Culver City, CA (US);
Shahrooz Rabizadeh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
NantOmics, LLC, Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for determining a cell count within a whole slide pathology image. The image is segmented using a global threshold value to define a tissue area. A plurality of patches comprising the tissue area are selected. Stain intensity vectors are determined within the plurality of patches to generate a stain intensity image. The stain intensity image is iteratively segmented to generate a cell mask using a local threshold value that is and gradually reduced after each iteration. A chamfer distance transform is applied to the cell mask to generate a distance map. Cell seeds are determined on the distance map. Cell segments are determined using a watershed transformation, and a whole cell count is calculated for the plurality of patches based on the cell segments. A client device may be configured for real-time cell counting based on the whole cell count.