Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-27
2005-12-27
Patel, Kanjibhai (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C435S009000, C436S063000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06980677
ABSTRACT:
A method (and system) for using information contained within the scanned image to create, in an automated (or semi-automated) process, an accurate data grid. The process has steps: enhance the image; locate blocks of spots; and find each individual spot in each of the blocks. Preferably, the method makes use of image filtering using a “Principal Frequency Filter” based on a mathematical determination of major periodic elements in the image to eliminate noisy, non-periodic signals, and of smoothed intensity profiles of the filtered image data. Here, the term Principal Frequency Filter is used to indicate an image-enhancing filter based upon a mathematical operation which identifies the major periodic components of the image.
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Foskett Darach B.
Martens Christine L.
Niles Richard K.
Niles Scientific, Inc.
Patel Kanjibhai
Tabatabai Abolfazl
Townsend and Townsend / and Crew LLP
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