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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2007
Gal Shafirstein, Little Rock, AR (US);
Xiaowei Xu, Little Rock, AR (US);
Mutlu Mete, Little Rock, AR (US);
Gal Shafirstein, Little Rock, AR (US);
Xiaowei Xu, Little Rock, AR (US);
Mutlu Mete, Little Rock, AR (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR (US);
Abstract
An automated method for analyzing whether all cancerous or abnormal tissue has been removed as a result of surgical resection is disclosed. A number of tissue section slides are prepared representing all or a relatively large percentage of the tissue sample, and high-resolution digital microscopic images are formed of the sections. A clustering algorithm forms an image showing the healthy tissue margins, such representation being stored in a file of significantly smaller size than the original photograph. These two-dimensional image files may be formed into a three-dimensional image of the entire resected tissue, thereby improving the accuracy and ease by which a pathologist may determine if further surgery or radiation therapy, for example, are indicated.
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