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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Verily Life Sciences Llc, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Behrooz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Santori, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Various techniques are provided for performing automated full-cell segmentation and labeling in immunofluorescent microscopy. These techniques perform membrane segmentation and nuclear seed detection separate and independently from each other, then combine their results to identify cell boundaries. Some embodiments use texture- and kernel-based image processing to perform the method. In some embodiments, the method for obtaining membrane features disclosed herein can be used in conjunction with or separate from the nuclear features. The results can be used for a variety of purposes, including whole-area cell segmentation in fluorescence-based tissue imaging.