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Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2012
Applicants:

Siddarth Satish, Cupertino, CA (US);

Charles Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);

Kevin Miller, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Ali Zandifar, San Francisco, CA (US);

Amer Abdulla, Tracy, CA (US);

Michael Hsieh, Menlo Park, CA (US);

David Rempel, Kensington, CA (US);

Mark Gonzalgo, Stanford, CA (US);

Inventors:

Siddarth Satish, Cupertino, CA (US);

Charles Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);

Kevin Miller, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);

Ali Zandifar, San Francisco, CA (US);

Amer Abdulla, Tracy, CA (US);

Michael Hsieh, Menlo Park, CA (US);

David Rempel, Kensington, CA (US);

Mark Gonzalgo, Stanford, CA (US);

Assignee:

Gauss Surgical, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2013.01); G06T 5/00 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 7/602 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract

One method for estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of a physical sample includes: comparing a portion of an image of the sample with a template image of known extracorporeal blood volume indicator; tagging the portion of the image of the sample with a blood volume indicator according to the template image that is matched to the portion of the image of the sample; and estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in at least a portion of the physical sample, associated with the portion of the image of the sample, according to the blood volume indicator.


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