Patent ID: 8515683

Claim:
A computer software product that includes a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processor, the non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a set of instructions for performing automated detection of immunohistochemical (IHC) patterns, the instructions comprising: analyzing luminance values of plural pixels from a digital image of a human tissue sample to which an immunohistochemical (IHC) compound has been applied to segment the digital image into an IHC pattern area and background area; identifying one or more probable epithelial cell areas in the segmented IHC pattern area; detecting and filtering out stromal cell areas and lymph cell areas within the identified one or more probable epithelial cell areas to create one or more filtered probable epithelial cell area; detecting and filtering out artifact areas from the one or more filtered probable epithelial cell areas; and creating a medical conclusion using the one or more filtered probable epithelial cell areas.