ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. RE50,416, issued on May 6, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).
"Quality control for digital pathology slides" was invented by Anant Madabhushi (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Andrew Janowczyk (East Meadow, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include accessing a set of digital pathology (DP) images having an imaging parameter; applying a low-computational cost histology quality control (HistoQC) pipeline to the DP images, where the low-computational cost HistoQC pipeline computes a first set of image metrics associated with a DP image, and assigns the DP image to a first or a second, different cohort based on ...