WO2002056256A3 - A system and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging - Google Patents

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WO2002056256A3
WO2002056256A3 PCT/US2002/000458 US0200458W WO02056256A3 WO 2002056256 A3 WO2002056256 A3 WO 2002056256A3 US 0200458 W US0200458 W US 0200458W WO 02056256 A3 WO02056256 A3 WO 02056256A3
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Arthur W Wetzel
John R Ii Gilbertson
Jeffrey A Beckstead
Patricia A Feineigle
Christopher R Hauser
Frank A Palmieri Jr
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A system for processing a thumbnail image from a microscope slide to determine tissue locations on the slide. The system comprises an image cropping component, a tissue finding component, and a scan control component. The image cropping component crops the thumbnail image and removes portions of the image that fall outside of determined slide boundaries. The cropped image from the image cropping component is inputted into the tissue finding component. The tissue finding component identifies tissue regions by applying a sequence of filters that incorporate knowledge of typical appearance and location of tissue and non-tissue slide regions. The tissue finding component outputs a tiling matrix whose values indicate which tiles should be imaged. The scan control component interprets the tiling matrix and transposes positions of the tiling matrix into actual stage coordinate for a microscopic imaging.
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