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- Patent Title: System and method for analyzing cytological tissue preparations
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Application No.: US16679133Application Date: 2019-11-08
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Publication No.: US12057229B1Publication Date: 2024-08-06
- Inventor: Louis J. Vaickus
- Applicant: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
- Applicant Address: US NH Lebanon
- Assignee: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
- Current Assignee: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
- Current Assignee Address: US NH Lebanon
- Agency: Loginov & Associates, PLLC
- Agent William A. Loginov
- Main IPC: G16H50/20
- IPC: G16H50/20 ; G01N15/1433 ; G06F18/214 ; G06F18/40 ; G06N3/08 ; G16H30/40 ; G01N15/10

Abstract:
A system and method for delivering diagnostic information to a user in an automated manner. An image processing module reads magnified raw image data from whole slides containing tissue cells. A background deletion process identifies and isolates cell images. A neural network, which is trained based upon image data, classifies the cell images. The classification uses specialist criteria to categorize/segment the cell images into a plurality of discrete cell types. A display process provides the diagnostic information to the user. The neural network can be trained using a plurality of cell types each having the specialist criteria. The diagnostic information includes filtered and/or reorganized images of the tissue cells. Additionally, the user can request the diagnostic information based upon an account that provides payment according to a predetermined formula associated with at least one of a type, format, and timing of information delivered to the user.
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