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US 2014/0369587 A1Published application
Diagnostic Method and System
AssigneeCytosystems Limited
InventorsDavid Galloway, Daniel Mark Maynard
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of diagnosis which identifies one or more individual cells and comprises determining at least one of a cell dimension and a cell area, and determining at least one of dark/light cell contrast characteristics, cell area characteristics, cell colour characteristics, cell roughness characteristics, distances between cell nuclei and cell convexity. A computer readable medium, a computer apparatus and a diagnostic system is also provided.
Claims21
A method of diagnosis comprising:
- providing a cell sample;
- contacting said cell sample with an antibody capable of binding a minichromosome maintenance (MCM) polypeptide(s);
- observing one or more cell samples;
- identifying one or more individual cells;
- determining one or more characteristics of the, or each, individual cell;
- comparing the, or each, determined characteristic with a respective determined or predetermined characteristic;
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- recording the correlation of the, or each, determined characteristic and the respective predetermined characteristic;
- wherein identifying the one or more individual cells comprises determining at least one of a cell dimension and a cell area, and wherein determining the one or more characteristics comprises determining at least one of the dark/light cell contrast characteristics, cell area characteristics, cell colour characteristics, cell roughness characteristics, distances between cell nuclei and cell convexity.
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