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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Colin Craig Mcculloch, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Christopher James Sevinsky, Watervliet, NY (US);
Jingyu Zhang, Rexford, NY (US);
Colin Craig McCulloch, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Christopher James Sevinsky, Watervliet, NY (US);
Jingyu Zhang, Rexford, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments enable determination of spatial proximity between two or more features in biological tissue. An exemplary method includes identifying a morphological feature in an image of the biological tissue based on expression levels of a first biomarker indicative of the morphological feature, and receiving a result of a segmentation analysis performed on the image of the biological tissue identifying a set of morphological units in the image external to the morphological feature. An exemplary method includes determining an expression level of a second biomarker corresponding to each unit in the set of morphological units in the image of the biological tissue, and determining a spatial distance between the morphological feature and each unit in the set of morphological units. An exemplary method further includes automatically determining a relationship between expression levels of the second biomarker and corresponding spatial distance from the morphological feature of the set of morphological units.