Image Processing Method for Displaying Cells of a Plurality of Overall Images

• Main Authors: Kroeger, Christine, Voigt, Joern, Gerlach, Stefan, Marzahl, Christian
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.09.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS

An image processing method is provided for displaying cells from a plurality of pathology images or overall images. A respective overall image represents a respective patient tissue sample or a respective patient cell sample. The method includes the steps of: providing the overall images, detecting individual cell images in the overall images by means of a computer-assisted algorithm, determining classification data by means of the computer-assisted algorithm, wherein the classification data indicate a respective unique mapping of a respective detected cell image to one of a plurality of cell classes, and wherein the classification data further have a respective measure of confidence in respect of the respective unique mapping, generating respective class images for the respective cell classes, wherein a class image of a cell class reproduces the cell images mapped to the cell class in a regular arrangement and with a predetermined order, and wherein further the order of the mapped cell images is chosen on the basis of the measures of confidence of the mapped cell images, and further, displaying a portion of at least one class image.