US 11,914,133 B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing a bodily sample
Yochay Shlomo Eshel, Sde Warburg (IL); Natalie Lezmy, Hod Hasharon (IL); Dan Gluck, Kadima (IL); Arnon Houri Yafin, Jerusalem (IL); and Joseph Joel Pollak, Neve Daniel (IL)
Assigned to S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd., Jerusalem (IL)
Filed by S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,858.
Application 17/568,858 is a continuation of application No. 16/851,686, filed on Apr. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,262,571.
Application 16/851,686 is a continuation of application No. 16/657,473, filed on Oct. 18, 2019, granted, now 10,663,712, issued on May 26, 2020.
Application 16/657,473 is a continuation of application No. 15/760,782, granted, now 10,488,644, issued on Nov. 26, 2019, previously published as PCT/IL2016/051025, filed on Sep. 15, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/219,889, filed on Sep. 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0128811 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 20/69 (2022.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 21/367 (2013.01) [G01N 21/8851 (2013.01); G02B 21/365 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06V 20/693 (2022.01); G06V 20/698 (2022.01); G01N 2021/8887 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10056 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
 
1. Apparatus for analyzing a bodily sample, the apparatus comprising:
a microscope system configured to acquire one or more microscope images of the bodily sample;
an output device; and
at least one computer processor configured to:
identify elements as being candidates of a given entity, in the one or more images,
extract, from the one or more images, at least one sample-informative feature relating to a characteristic of the candidates of the given entity within the sample as a whole, by extracting, from the one or more images, an indication selected from the group consisting of: an indication of probabilities of the candidates being the given entity, an indication of a number of the candidates that have a probability of being the given entity that exceeds a threshold, and an indication of a number of the candidates that have a probability of being a given type of the given entity that exceeds a threshold;
determine a characteristic of the sample at least partially based upon the sample- informative feature, and
generate an output upon the output device, in response thereto.