System and method for support of medical diagnosis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8977017-B2
Application number	US-201113233786-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2011
Priority date	Sep 15, 2011
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

A system and method supporting medical diagnosis made based on evaluation of images of a histopathology sample. The method includes automated generation and evaluation of a digitally-stained image (emulating the effect produced on the sample by a chosen specific dye) based at least on one of data representing an image of the HE-stained sample and empirical testing data representing samples stained with specific dyes. The system is adapted to acquire a multispectral image of the sample, to implement the digital staining of the sample's image, and to evaluate automatically the digitally-stained image contemporaneously with multispectral image acquisition. The system generates an output indicative of need to request a preparation of an actual specimen stained with chosen specific dye for further evaluation, reducing the number of samples prepared in anticipation of such request and reducing time lapsed prior to the evaluation by a histopathologist.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image-evaluation apparatus configured to support a process of medical diagnosis based on automated evaluation of an image of a biological sample, the apparatus comprising
an optical system adapted to acquire imaging data representing a biological sample; and
a processor in operable communication with said optical system and programmed
to receive the acquired imaging data from the optical system,
to generate a display signal adapted to cause an exhibi…

Assignees

• Otsuka Takeshi
• Yagi Yukako
• Gen Hospital Corp

Inventors

• Otsuka Takeshi
• Yagi Yukako

Classifications

• G06T7/0012 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2207/30024

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2207/10056

  Physics · mapped topic