US Patent Issued to NantOmics on Sept. 2 for "Real-time whole slide pathology image cell counting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,366, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NantOmics LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Real-time whole slide pathology image cell counting" was invented by Bing Song (La Canada, Calif.), Liudmila A. Beziaeva (Culver City, Calif.) and Shahrooz Rabizadeh (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining a cell count within a whole slide pathology image. The image is segmented using a global threshold value to define a tissue area. A plurality of patches comprising the tissue area are selected. Stain intensity vectors are determined within the plurality of patches to generate a stain intensity image. The stain i...