Diagnostics systems and methods
AssigneeHemex Health, Inc.
InventorsPeter Galen, Umut Atakan Gurkan, Muhammad Noman Hasan, James Daren Bledsoe, Tyler Witte
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Abstract
A diagnostic system that includes a cartridge and a reader is discussed herein. The cartridge can contain a patient sample, such as a blood sample. The cartridge is inserted into the reader and the patient sample is analyzed. The reader contains various analysis systems, such as an electrophoresis detection system that uses electrophoresis testing to identify and quantify various components of the blood sample. The reader can process data from the various patient sample analysis to provide interpretative results indicative of a disorder, condition, disease, or infection of the patient.
Claims33
An electrophoresis detection system, comprising:
- an illumination source structured to:
- during an assay run on an electrophoresis strip, emit a first stimulus,
- during the assay run on the electrophoresis strip, emit a second stimulus, and
- a processing circuitry programmed to:
- generate an instruction to cause the illumination source to emit the first stimulus and the second stimulus;
- receive multiple optical images of the electrophoresis strip, each of the multiple optical images captured during the assay run, including a first image captured at a first time point during the assay run when the first stimulus is emitted and a second image captured at a second time point during the assay run when the second stimulus is emitted;
- during the assay run, detect band detection data based on the multiple optical images of the electrophoresis strip, the band detection data having:
- a detection characteristic generated from the first image, the detection characteristic of the first image detected in response to emission of the first stimulus including band thickness and band speed of one or both of a first band and a second band, respectively, in the first image, and
- a detection characteristic generated from the second image, the detection characteristic of the second image detected in response to emission of the second stimulus including band thickness and band speed of one or both of the first band and the second band, respectively, in the second image;
- during the assay run, identify a component associated with the band detection data based on the detection characteristic generated from the first image and the detection characteristic generated from the second image;
- and
- during the assay run, transmit an identifier of the component to an output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.