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- Patent Title: System and method for blood vessel analysis and quantification in highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging
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Application No.: US15270061Application Date: 2016-09-20
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Publication No.: US10019796B2Publication Date: 2018-07-10
- Inventor: Yousef Al-Kofahi , Anup Sood , Fiona Ginty , Qing Li , Christopher James Sevinsky , Alberto Santamaria-Pang
- Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: GE Global Patent Operation
- Agent Nitin Joshi
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G06T11/60

Abstract:
Disclosed are novel computer-implemented methods for creating a blood vessel map of a biological tissue. The methods comprise the steps of, accessing image data corresponding to multi-channel multiplexed image of a fluorescently stained biological tissue manifesting expression levels of a primary marker and at least one auxiliary marker of blood vasculature, and extracting features of blood vessels using the primary marker as an input to create a single channel segmentation of the blood vessels. The method further comprises the steps of extracting features of blood vessels using the auxiliary marker to create auxiliary channels as a second input and apply multi-channel blood vessel enhancement. Blood vessel maps are created using the features and tracing the blood vasculature by iteratively extending the centerlines of the initial segmentation using statistical models and geometric rules.
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