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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2019
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Kai Ma, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Yao-Jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Terrence Chen, Princeton, NJ (US);
Benjamin S. Pollack, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of characterizing a serum or plasma portion of a specimen in a specimen container provides a fine-grained HILN index (hemolysis, icterus, lipemia, normal) of the serum or plasma portion of the specimen, wherein the H, I, and L classes may each have five to seven sub-classes. The HILN index may also have one un-centrifuged class. Pixel data of an input image of the specimen container may be processed by a deep semantic segmentation network having, in some embodiments, more than 100 layers. A small front-end container segmentation network may be used to determine a container type and boundary, which may additionally be input to the deep semantic segmentation network. A discriminative network may be used to train the deep semantic segmentation network to generate a homogeneously structured output. Quality check modules and testing apparatus configured to carry out the method are also described, as are other aspects.