Method and apparatus for automatic her2 scoring of tissue samples
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMING-CHANG LIU, XIMIN ZHANG
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Abstract
Certain aspects of an apparatus and method for method and apparatus for automatic HER2 scoring of tissue samples may include for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising identifying one or more nuclei in a slide image of a tissue sample, determine one or more membrane strengths in the slide image surrounding each of the one or more nuclei, classifying one or more cells, each corresponding to the one or more nuclei, in a class among a plurality of classes according to the one or more membrane strengths and determining a cancer diagnosis score based on a percentage of cells classified in each of the plurality of classes.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising:
- identifying one or more nuclei in a slide image of a tissue sample;
- determine one or more membrane strengths in the slide image surrounding each of the one or more nuclei;
- classifying one or more cells, each corresponding to the one or more nuclei, in a class among a plurality of classes according to the one or more membrane strengths;
- and
- determining a cancer diagnosis score based on a percentage of cells classified in each of the plurality of classes.
An apparatus for determining a cancer diagnosis score comprising:
- a nucleus identification module for identifying one or more nuclei in a slide image of a tissue sample;
- a classification module for:
- determining one or more membrane strengths in the slide image surrounding each of the one or more nuclei;
- and classifying one or more cells, each corresponding to the one or more nuclei, in a class among a plurality of classes according to the one or more membrane strengths;
- and
- a scoring module for determining a cancer diagnosis score based on a percentage of cells classified in each of the plurality of classes.
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