Patent ID: 9430830
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by the computer control the computer to perform a method for predicting a risk of disease by examining architectural features of stromal and epithelial tissue with a spatially aware cell cluster graph (SpACCl), comprising: accessing an image of a region of pathological tissue; identifying a stromal compartment in the image; identifying an epithelial compartment in the image, where the epithelial compartment is distinguishable from the stromal compartment; identifying a plurality of cluster nodes in the image, where a cluster node comprises a plurality of nuclei, and where identifying a plurality of cluster nodes comprises: constructing electronic data associated with a spatially aware stromal sub-graph G constructing a spatially aware epithelial sub-graph G extracting local graph features from the sub-graphs G predicting the risk of disease, based, at least in part, on the local graph features.