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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Max Diem, Boston, MA (US);
Milos Miljkovic, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Melissa Romeo, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Benjamin Bird, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Jennifer Schubert, Boston, MA (US);
Kostas Papamarkakis, Springfield, MA (US);
Max Diem, Boston, MA (US);
Milos Miljkovic, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Melissa Romeo, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Benjamin Bird, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Jennifer Schubert, Boston, MA (US);
Kostas Papamarkakis, Springfield, MA (US);
Northeastern University, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides improved methods for determining the presence of abnormalities in exfoliated cells. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides methods for reconstructing cellular spectrum of a cell sample by creating a spectral map of the cellular sample, generating a binary mask of the spectral map, removing edge artifacts from each cell, and co-adding spectral data of each pixel corresponding to the cell to reconstruct the spectrum of each cell.