Patent ID: 8135236

Claim:
A system of re-locating an object of interest in a sample on a slide, the slide having been previously scanned so as to determine objects of interest in the sample, wherein corresponding coordinates have been associated with each object of interest, an image and corresponding coordinates of each object of interest have been stored, and the objects of interest mapped relative to each other via the coordinates, said system comprising: a visual display configured to display at least one of the stored images of the objects of interest wherein the visual display is configured to display the field-of-view image separately from the displayed stored images, and wherein the visual display is configured to display the field-of-view image and the stored image alongside one another such that the images are not in superposition with one another; and a microscope for viewing at least a portion of the slide on the visual display; and a microscope stage for receiving the slide thereon, wherein the microscope stage is configured to move the slide to a first estimated coordinate position on the slide corresponding to the stored coordinates of a first target object of interest associated with at least one of the displayed stored images, wherein the microscope is configured to view a field-of-view image of the sample at the first estimated coordinate position for comparison to the stored image of the first target object of interest, and wherein the microscope stage is further configured to move the slide from the first estimated coordinate position and according to a first offset so as to center the first target object of interest in the field-of-view image, wherein the first offset is determined between actual coordinates of the located first target object of interest and the stored coordinates of the object of interest corresponding to the first target object of interest if the first target object of interest is located in the field-of-view image.