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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Vivek Singh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Yao-Jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Benjamin S. Pollack, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ankur Kapoor, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of characterizing a specimen and specimen container to be analyzed in an automated diagnostic analysis system. The method can provide a segmentation determination and/or an HILN determination (hemolysis, icterus, lipemia, or normal) of the specimen while protecting patient information. The method includes capturing an image of a specimen container via an image capture device, identifying a label affixed to the specimen container in the captured image via an anonymization network, and editing the captured image via the anonymization network to mask some or all information present in the label so that it is removed from the captured image. Quality check modules and systems configured to carry out the method are also described, as are other aspects.