Patent ID: 8712140
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method of analyzing infectious agents, comprising: providing a sample containing a plurality of an infectious agent; taking a first image of a first infectious agent and a second image of a second infectious agent; characterizing the first infectious agent as having a first structure and the second infectious agent as having a second structure; transforming the first image to a first color scale profile representing a radial density profile of the first infectious agent going from a center of the first infectious agent radially outwardly towards a periphery of the infectious agent or going from the periphery of the first infectious agent radially inwardly towards the center of the first infectious agent; transforming the second image to a second color scale profile; saving the first color scale profile as a first template; saving the second color scale profile as a second template; identifying a third infectious agent in a third image; transforming the third image into a third color scale profile; and comparing the third color scale profile to the first and second template to determine a structure of the third infectious agent.