Patent ID: 11859253
Assignee: CELLMAX LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC C  G | IPC C  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer program product for identifying candidate target cells within a biological fluid specimen, the computer program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions to cause a processor to:
receive a digital image of the biological fluid specimen;
identify at least one candidate region of pixels in the digital image having the shape of a cell, wherein the instructions to identify the at least one candidate region having the shape of a cell include instructions to identify connected regions of pixels of a minimum intensity having a size between a minimum size and a maximum size and an aspect ratio that meets a threshold; and
determine whether a single candidate region having the shape is identified or a plurality of candidate regions having the shape are identified in the image; and
if a single candidate is identified then treat the candidate region as an image artifact, whereas if a plurality of candidate regions are identified then continue to treat the portions of the image corresponding to the plurality of candidate regions as candidates for classification.