ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,037, issued on Dec. 9.
"Process for providing accurate counting of nuclei in cellular images" was invented by Rishik Kolpekwar (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention accomplishes an improvement to nuclei counting through an automatic counting algorithm that labels the nuclei in the images for the reviewers similar to how an individual would analyze cancerous and non-cancerous nuclei. The invention then provides a manual review step to reanalyze the image through a semi-automatic user interface. In addition, the counting data is stored in image metadata and a condensed version of the modified images is created...