US 12,014,811 B2
Systems and methods for caching biological image data
Prakash Boda, Santa Clara, CA (US); Abhisheak Sharma, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Steve Yungming Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., Tucson, AZ (US)
Appl. No. 17/274,060
Filed by Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/049289
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/051113, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/728,573, filed on Sep. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0358596 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G16H 30/20 (2018.01) [G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/068 (2013.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of pre-processing biological image data on a server to facilitate transmission of the biological image data to a digital pathology analysis system, the method comprising:
receiving the biological image data having a first image file format, the biological image data derived from scans of microscope slides having one or more biological samples disposed thereon, the biological samples stained with hematoxylin and eosin or stained to identify presence of one or more biomarkers;
pre-processing the received biological image data to generate one or more pre-processed image files, wherein each of the generated one or more pre-processed image files is derived from the received biological image data in the first image file format, and wherein each of the generated one or more pre-processed image files are provided in a second file format;
storing the generated one or more pre-processed image files provided in the second file format in one or more memories communicatively coupled to the server; and
transmitting, prior to a user request, at least one pre-processed image file of the generated one or more pre-processed image files to a cache agent running on a client system, wherein the cache agent is an application configured to manage preprocessed files on the client system, such that the at least one pre-processed image file is retrievable locally from a storage subsystem of the client system upon receiving a user input requiring the at least one pre-processed image file.