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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2022
Cellmax Ltd., Grand Cayman, KY;
Huangpin B. Hsieh, Palo Alto, CA (US);
XiaoMing Wang, Dublin, CA (US);
Jr-Ming Lai, Taipei, TW;
Rui Mei, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hung-Jen Shao, Taipei, TW;
Jen-Chia Wu, Taipei, TW;
CellMax Ltd., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for identifying candidate target cells within a biological fluid specimen includes a digital image of the biological fluid specimen with the digital image having a plurality of color channels, identifying first connected regions of pixels of a minimum first intensity in a first channel, identifying second connected regions of pixels of a minimum second intensity in a second channel, and determining first connected regions and second connected regions that spatially overlap. For a pair of a first connected region and a second connected region that spatially overlap, whether the second connected region overlaps the first connected region by a threshold amount is determined, and if the second connected region overlaps the first connected region by the threshold amount then the portion of the image corresponding to the overlap is continued to be treated as a candidate for classification.