EP 1256087 A1 20021113 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS
Title (en)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND GERÄT ZUR AUTOMATISCHEN BILDANALYSE VON BIOLOGISCHEN PROBEN
Title (fr)
PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DESTINES A REALISER UNE ANALYSE D'IMAGE AUTOMATISEE SUR DES ECHANTILLONS BIOLOGIQUES
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 0103452 W 20010201
- US 49546100 A 20000201
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO0157785A1] A method and apparatus for automated cell analysis of biological specimens automatically scans at a low magnification to acquire images (288) which are analyzed to determine candidate cell objects of interest. The low magnification images are converted from a first color space to a second color space (290). The color space converted image is then low pass filtered (292) and compared to a threshold (294) to remove artifacts and background objects from the candidate objects of interest pixels of the color converted image. The candidate object of interest pixels are morphologically processed (296) to group candidate object of interest pixels together into groups which are compared to blob parameters (298) to identify candidate objects of interest which correspond to cells or other structures relevant to medical diagnosis of the biological specimen. The location coordinates of the objects of interest are stored and additional images of the candidate cell objects are acquired at high magnification. The high magnification images are analyzed in the same manner as the low magnification images to confirm the candidate objects of interest which are objects of interest. A high magnification image of each confirmed object of interest is stored for later review and evaluation by a pathologist.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
G06V 10/25 (2022.01 - EP US); G06V 20/693 (2022.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 0157785 A1 20010809; AU 3476501 A 20010814; EP 1256087 A1 20021113; EP 1256087 A4 20051221
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 0103452 W 20010201; AU 3476501 A 20010201; EP 01906915 A 20010201