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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2002
Richard L. Hansen, Pennington, NJ (US);
William J. Karsh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Amersham Biosciences Corp, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for acquiring images of biological samples and analyzing contrast features are provided. The present invention may determine whether a contrast feature in a image of a biological example qualifies as a grain (textural feature of interest). The size, intensity of contrast features, or other parameters may be tuned to find contrast features that correspond to features having significance in a given application. In addition, the total number of grains per image, the number of grains per sample, the number of grains per unit area, the area fraction occupied by grains, the ratio of intensity of grains to the intensity of the image, or other suitable characteristics may be determined.