Patent Document ID: 9111343
Application ID: 13008848
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for relocating an object of interest at a second imaging station based on coordinates for the object of interest at a first imaging station, the method comprising: acquiring a first pair of images including a reference image of a specimen on the first imaging station and a second image of the specimen on the second imaging station; identifying a cell group that appears in both the reference image and second image, wherein identifying the cell group comprises: identifying an arrangement of cell center points from the second image, and comparing the arrangement of cell center points from the second image to an arrangement of cell center points in the reference image; determining stage coordinates of the cell group on the first imaging station from stage coordinates at which the reference image was acquired; determining stage coordinates of the cell group on the second imaging station from stage coordinates at which the second image was acquired; and calculating an affine transformation that converts the stage coordinates of the first imaging station to the stage coordinates of the second imaging station.