Patent ID: 11927736
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTICS INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method of characterizing a specimen container, comprising:
capturing an image of the specimen container with an image capture device, the specimen container including a serum or plasma portion of a specimen therein;
processing pixel data of the image of the specimen container using a deep semantic segmentation network executing on a computer to determine a classification index of the serum or plasma portion; and
outputting from the deep semantic segmentation network the classification index of the serum or plasma portion, wherein the classification index comprises hemolytic, icteric, lipemic, and normal classes, and each of the hemolytic, icteric, and lipemic classes comprises five to seven sub-classes; wherein:
the deep semantic segmentation network comprises an architecture including at least ten dense block layers; and
the deep semantic segmentation network comprises an architecture including at least one dense block layer having 15 dense layers.