Methods for detecting fluorescent signals in a biological sample
AssigneeIkonisys, Inc.
InventorsYoung Min KIM, Yanning ZHU, Yash AGARWAL, Xiuzhong WANG, Aaron ARMSTRONG, Robert BORGERDING, Andrew MACGINITIE, Antti SEPPO, llia ICHETOVKIN, Michael KILPATRICK, Petros TSIPOURAS, Triantafyllos TAFAS
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Abstract
A method for automated microscopic analysis wherein the test protocol is obtained from interrogatable data affixed to each microscope slide. The method further comprises the algorithms that implement the test protocol.
Claims21
1-24. (canceled)
A method performed by an apparatus, the method comprising:
- reading electronically-interrogatable data from each slide of one or more slides, wherein said each slide comprises a sample and said electronically-interrogatable data pertaining to said sample;
- determining from said electronically-interrogatable data for said each slide of the one or more slides information on how said sample is to be analyzed;
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- analyzing said sample situated on said each slide of said one or more slides using said information determined from said electronically-interrogatable data.
A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising computer readable instructions recorded thereon for execution a method comprising:
- reading electronically-interrogatable data from each slide of one or more slides, wherein said each slide comprises a sample and said electronically-interrogatable data pertaining to said sample;
- determining from said electronically-interrogatable data for said each slide of the one or more slides information on how said sample is to be analyzed;
- and
- analyzing said sample situated on said each slide of said one or more slides using said information determined from said electronically-interrogatable data.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a reading device, configured to read electronically-interrogatable data from each slide of one or more slides, wherein said each slide comprises a sample and electronically-interrogatable data pertaining to said sample;
- a controller, configured to receive and determine from said electronically-interrogatable data for said each slide of the one or more slides information on how said sample is to be analyzed, and to provide instructions for performing a corresponding analysis based on said information;
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- an analyzing module, responsive to said instructions from said controller, configured to analyze said sample situated on said each slide of said one or more slides using said instructions from said controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.