US 12,005,443 B2
Apparatus and method for analyzing a bodily sample
Ido Bachelet, Tel Aviv (IL); Joseph Joel Pollak, Neve Daniel (IL); Daniel Levner, Brookline, MA (US); Yonatan Bilu, Jerusalem (IL); and Noam Yorav-Raphael, Tekoa (IL)
Assigned to S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/064,193.
Application 15/174,490 is a division of application No. 13/338,291, filed on Dec. 28, 2011, granted, now 9,522,396, issued on Dec. 20, 2016.
Application 17/064,193 is a continuation of application No. 15/174,490, filed on Jun. 6, 2016, granted, now 10,843,190.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/427,809, filed on Dec. 29, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2021/0101147 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 15/1433 (2024.01); G01N 21/23 (2006.01); G01N 21/59 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01N 15/01 (2024.01); G01N 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 3/502715 (2013.01) [G01N 15/1433 (2024.01); G01N 21/23 (2013.01); G01N 21/5907 (2013.01); G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0816 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0864 (2013.01); G01N 2015/016 (2024.01); G01N 2015/1006 (2013.01); G01N 2021/5957 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6419 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6421 (2013.01); G06V 2201/03 (2022.01); G06V 2201/04 (2022.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
successively acquiring a plurality of microscopic images of a portion of a blood sample;
tracking motion of pixels within the successively acquired microscopic images;
identifying trypomastigote parasite candidates within the blood sample, by identifying pixel motion that is typical of trypomastigote parasites;
determining that the blood sample is infected with trypomastigote parasites, at least partially in response thereto; and
generating an output indicating that that the blood sample is infected with trypomastigote parasites.