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

Claim 5:
6. 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 front-end container segmentation network executing on a computer to determine a container type and a container boundary;
processing the pixel data of the image of the specimen container using a deep semantic segmentation network executing on the computer to determine a classification index of the serum or plasma portion;
inputting the container type and container boundary from the front-end container segmentation network via an additional input channel to the deep semantic segmentation network to determine the 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.