Patent ID: 9619881
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for characterizing a cell population including a set of cell subpopulations, the method comprising: at a processing system, receiving image data corresponding to a set of images of the cell population captured at a set of time points; at the processing system, generating an analysis based upon processing the set of images according to: a cell stage classification module configured to automatically identify a cell stage of each of the set of cell subpopulations, wherein processing the set of images comprises: from the analysis, determining a set of parameters characterizing the cell population; and at the processing system, generating an indication of a characteristic of the cell population based upon a comparison between at least one parameter of the set of parameters and a set of reference values, wherein generating the pixel intensity histogram comprises generating the pixel intensity histogram based on the frequency of 1's and 0's from the local binary pattern histogram, and wherein generating the feature vector based upon processing of the local binary pattern histogram and the pixel intensity histogram comprises concatenating the local binary pattern histogram and the pixel intensity histogram associated with the cell subpopulation corresponding to the pixel subset.