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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Srabani Bhaumik, Schenectady, NY (US);
Michael John Gerdes, Albany, NY (US);
Zhengyu Pang, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Fiona Ginty, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher James Sevinsky, Watervliet, NY (US);
Qing Li, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Schenectady, NY (US);
Yunxia Sui, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Keyur Hemantkumar Desai, Glenville, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to characterization of biological samples. By way of example, a biological sample may be contacted with a plurality of probes specific for targets in the sample, such as probes for immune markers and segmenting probes. Acquired image data of the sample may be used to segment the images into epithelial and stromal regions to characterize individual cells in the sample based on the binding of the probes. Further, the biological sample may be characterized by a distribution, location, and type of a plurality of the characterized cells.