Patent ID: 11922681
Assignee: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for identifying clusters of cells within a sample image of a biological specimen stained for the presence of one or more biomarkers comprising:
a. detecting cells in the sample image using a trained object detection engine, wherein the trained object detection engine comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is configured to identify cellular features within the sample image and wherein the second portion is configured to detect the cells based on the identified cellular features;
b. extracting at least a portion of the identified cellular features from one or more layers of the first portion of the trained object detection engine; and
c. clustering the detected cells in the sample image based on the extracted cellular features to provide one or more homogeneous clusters of detected cells, wherein the clustering of the detected cells comprises performing agglomerative hierarchical clustering.