Patent ID: 7151847

Claim:
A method, implemented on a computing device, of analyzing an image of one or_more cells, the method comprising: (a) identifying a region of the image subsuming some or all of the Golgi complex of a single cell; (b) within said region, automatically identifying the location of the Golgi complex; (c) based upon at least one of (i) the Golgi complex location within the region and (ii) the Golgi concentration within the region, automatically mathematically characterizing the Golgi complex within the single cell by calculating one or more of the kurtosis of intensity values associated with Golgi complex, an eigenvalue of a singular value decomposition of intensity values associated with Golgi complex, a mean of intensity values associated with Golgi complex, and a standard deviation of intensity values associated with Golgi complex; and (d) applying the mathematical characterization to a Golgi classification model to thereby automatically classify the Golgi complex in a category that at least partially distinguishes between normal Golgi and Golgi that is either diffuse or disperse or both diffuse and disperse.