Patent ID: 6404905
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: G01N,G03G,G06K,G06T

Abstract:
A method for processing visual information from an image of a 2-D electrophoresis gel, further comprising the steps of:having a master pattern in digital form; scanning the image thereby converting the image from visual information into digital form, said visual information comprising a plurality of spots defining a pattern of spots, each spot representing at least a portion of one protein; creating an object pattern from the scanned image or an image derived from the scanned image; matching spot data in the master pattern with spots represented in the object pattern; warping the master pattern into alignment with the object pattern thereby creating a new object pattern from the master pattern; augmenting the new object pattern with spots in the object pattern not present in the master pattern; comparing the scanned image with information from the augmented object pattern; and outputting numeric data based upon the comparison in said comparing step.