US Patent Issued to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for identifying cell clusters within images of stained biological samples" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,550, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for identifying cell clusters within images of stained biological samples" was invented by Yao Nie (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Safoora Yousefi (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to automated systems and methods adapted to quickly and accurately train a neural network to detect and/or classify cells and/or nuclei. The present disclosure also relates to automated systems and methods for using a trained cell detection and classification engine, such as one including a neural network, to classify cells ...