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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Vito Paolo Pastore, Genoa, IT;

Simone Bianco, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); C12Q 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 18/2415 (2023.01); G06V 10/762 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); C12Q 1/04 (2013.01); G06F 18/2415 (2023.01); G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); G06V 10/763 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01); G06V 20/693 (2022.01); G06V 20/695 (2022.01); G06V 20/698 (2022.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method that identify and classify unknown microorganisms and/or known microorganisms with anomalies are provided. The system and method comprise processing images of microorganisms from an aquatic environment; extracting features from the processed images; an unsupervised partitioning algorithm for identifying and classifying known microorganisms in the aquatic environment based upon the extracted features; and a supervised classifier neural network that is trained with the unsupervised partitioning algorithm and identifies and classifies unknown microorganisms and/or known microorganisms with anomalies.


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