	US 12,475,681 B2
	Apparatus and methods of training models of diagnostic analyzers
Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat, Princeton, NJ (US); Benjamin S. Pollack, Jersey City, NJ (US); Yao-Jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US); Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy, Hillsborough, NJ (US); Vivek Singh, Princeton, NJ (US); and Ankur Kapoor, Plainsboro, NJ (US)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/755,477
Filed by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/056932 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 29, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/086725, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/929,071, filed on Oct. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0383618 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 10/00 (2022.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01); A61B 5/15 (2006.01)

CPC G06V 10/764 (2022.01) [G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01); A61B 5/150343 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A method of training a model of a diagnostic apparatus, comprising:

providing one or more first tube assemblies of a first type in a diagnostic apparatus;

providing one or more second tube assemblies of a second type in the diagnostic apparatus;

capturing one or more first images of at least a portion of each of the one or more first tube assemblies using an imaging device;

capturing one or more second images of at least a portion of each of the one or more second tube assemblies using the imaging device;

training a model to identify tube assemblies of the first type and tube assemblies of the second type based on one or more physical characteristics of a tube assembly identified in the one or more first images and the one or more second images;

grouping tube assemblies of the first type into a first group by the trained model, the first group associated with first tests to be performed by the diagnostic apparatus or a first chemical additive or contents in the first type; and

grouping tube assemblies of the second type into a second group by the trained model, the second group associated with second tests to be performed by the diagnostic apparatus or a second chemical additive or contents in the second type.