92 results about "Blood smear" patented technology

A method for counting blood cells in a sample of whole blood. The method comprises the steps of:

• • (a) providing a sample of whole blood;
  • (b) depositing the sample of whole blood onto a slide, e.g., a microscope slide;
  • (c) employing a spreader to create a blood smear;
  • (d) allowing the blood smear to dry on the slide;
  • (e) measuring absorption or reflectance of light attributable to the hemoglobin in the red blood cells in the blood smear on the slide;
  • (f) recording a magnified two-dimensional digital image of the area of analysis identified by the measurement in step (e) as being of suitable thickness for analysis; and
  • (g) collecting, analyzing, and storing data from the magnified two-dimensional digital image.

Optionally, steps of fixing and staining of blood cells on the slide can be employed in the method.

A method and apparatus for controlling the processing of a liquid sample, e.g., a blood sample, based on a measurement related to the sample's ability to coat a surface against which the sample is brought into contact while being routinely transported. Preferably, the sample is advanced through a tube, and the amount of sample residue remaining within the tube is measured and correlated to coating process subsequently carried out on the sample, e.g., a process for producing blood-smears on a microscope slide. In a preferred embodiment, the amount of sample residue in a blood-transport tube is used to control the motion profile (i.e., acceleration and velocity) of a drop-spreading member used to spread a blood drop on a microscope slide in an automated slide-making instrument.

A blood cell image display apparatus comprising: a classifier for classifying blood cell images, which are obtained by imaging a blood smear prepared from a blood specimen, in accordance with types of blood cells in the blood cell images; an information receiver for receiving information relating to the blood specimen; a display section; and a display controller for determining a type of blood cell as a display object on the basis of the information relating to the blood specimen, and displaying a blood cell image classified as the determined type on the display section, is disclosed. A specimen analyzing system, a blood cell image display method, and a computer program product are also disclosed.

The invention relates to an automatic peripheral blood pushing device, which can achieve regular and standard blood smears by controlling parameters having directly affection on quality of the blood smears during a pushing process. Particularly, the automatic peripheral blood pushing device can control three degrees of freedom, utilizes a horizontal motor to control inclined included angle between a push slide and a glass slide, and utilizes a left motor to drive a synchronous belt pulley to complete blood pushing action, and adjusts speed and acceleration of the push slide by controlling rotation speed and acceleration of the left motor so as to control lengths of formed blood films. A clearance between the push slide and the horizontal glass slide is adjusted by utilizing an upper motor to drive a lead screw so as to control thicknesses of the formed blood films. Angle, speed and acceleration of the push slide, lengths of blood films and a clearance between the push slide and the glass slide can be adjusted by controlling running of the three motor, thereby manufacturing regular and stand blood smears with different thicknesses.

The invention discloses a device and method for determining parameters of a push piece, a push piece dyeing machine and a method for manufacturing a blood smear. The push piece dyeing machine comprises a blood transmission device, the push piece, a blood characteristic acquisition unit, a push piece parameter determining unit and a motion control unit, wherein the blood characteristic acquisition unit transmits a detection signal to a blood sample transmitted by the blood transmission device and receives a detection signal acting on the blood sample; the push piece parameter determining unit receives the detection signal output by the blood characteristic acquisition unit and determines and outputs the push piece parameters according to the detection signal; the motion control unit receives the push piece parameters output by the push piece parameter determining unit and controls relative motion of the push piece and a blood glass slide according to the push piece parameters. According to the method and the device, the operations of determining the push piece parameters and finishing manufacture of the blood smear can be performed in an independent push piece dyeing system or equipment, the system or the equipment is not required to be in cascade connection with a hematology analyzer to acquire related blood parameters, the process of determining the push piece parameters is simplified, and the complexity of the whole push piece dyeing machine is reduced in the aspects of structure and system operation.

The invention relates to a blood sample detection device, a blood sample detection method and a blood sample detection system. In the invention, a to-be-tested sample and a diluent are added into a counting device. The counting device is controlled to count the diluted to-be-tested sample to obtain a counting result. According to the counting result of the to-be-test sample, sampling parameters and slide pushing parameters are determined to produce a blood smear, thereby improving preparation efficiency and quality of the blood smear. By means of collection of amplified images of the blood smear, morphological feature parameters of the objects in the amplified images are obtained, thereby performing recognition analysis to the object to obtain a morphological feature analytic result of the objects. With the morphological feature analytic result, the morphologies of various cells in the to-be-test sample can be reflected effectively, thereby accurately reflecting true situation of the blood sample.

The invention discloses an automatic medical examination blood smear dyeing machine. According to the invention, a substrate is fixed at the upper part of a frame; a test tube conveyer is arranged in the frame; a test tube suction unit is arranged at the upper part of the substrate; a slide glass conveyer is arranged on the substrate; a sample smearing unit is connected with the slide glass conveyer; a dyeing device is connected with a sample picture device; a controlling unit is arranged on the substrate; a cleaning device is arranged on the test tube suction unit; a waste liquid gathering device is arranged at the lower part of the test tube suction unit; a printing unit is arranged on the substrate; and a network transmission unit is arranged in the controlling unit. The automatic medical examination blood smear dyeing machine can automatically complete operations like uniform mixing and sampling of a blood sample, automatically realizes cleaning via the cleaning device and overcomes the problems of great labor intensity, low detection efficiency, difficulty in guaranteeing smear dyeing quality and the like due to manual or partially machine-aided implementation of the operations in conventional medical examination mechanisms.

A blood smear preparation device includes a base; a carrying table for carrying a microscope slide thereon and being supported on the base; a lifting mechanism mounted to the base; a retaining stand suspended from an output end of the lifting mechanism; a spreader holder rotatably suspended from the retaining stand about a second rotating shaft and positioned above the carrying table; a positioning member for positioning the spreader; and a torsion elastic member provided about the second rotating shaft, with a free end of the torsion elastic member abutting against the spreader holder. With the provision of the second rotating shaft and the torsion elastic member, the spreader has a certain degree of flexibility and self-adaptiveness. Even if the spreader or the microscope slide has no good micro-flatness or straightness, the device may automatically adjust the positions of the spreader and the microscope slide to achieve a line contact and a surface contact, and thus ensure the quality of the blood smear.

The invention provides an automatic blood smear preparing device. The automatic blood smear preparing device comprises a rack, the rack includes a support frame and a support platform supported at the support frame. The support platform is provided with the following mechanisms: a smear-entering mechanism, a smearing mechanism arranged at one side of the smear-in mechanism, a dyeing mechanism, a blood sample loading mechanism placed between the dyeing mechanism and the smear-entering mechanism and a glass slide outputting mechanism fixed on the support frame and arranged near the dyeing mechanism. The dyeing mechanism includes a rotatable dyeing plate, a plurality of dyeing boxes used for placing glass slides distributed evenly on the dyeing plate, and a mechanical arm used for putting the glass slides into the dyeing boxes or taking the glass slides from the dyeing boxes. A blood sampling tube platform used for placing blood sampling tubes is fixed at the side lower part of the support frame. The invention is compact in structure, small in size, and achieves automatic smearing and automatic dyeing of blood sample.

A substrate of blood smear is transparent adhesive tape and device for preparing blood smear is featured as forming a drying-sealed case and a staining sealed case when top and bottom isolation cover are closed in order to carry out drying and staining of blood smear, making transparent adhesive tap move a working position forward when operation is finished.

The invention relates to a smear device, in particular to an automatic smearing device for blood smear manufacturing. The technical problem is how to design an automatic smearing device for blood smear manufacturing, which can replace manual work to smear, is uniform in blood smearing, can air-dry a blood smear and is high in working efficiency. The automatic smearing device for blood smear manufacturing comprises a supporting frame, a machine box is fixedly connected to the end of the supporting frame, an inclined groove capable of enabling a blood smear to slide down is formed in one side ofthe machine box, and a discharging hopper is installed on the side, close to the inclined groove, outside the machine box. According to the invention, a glass slide is placed on the support plate; blood is dripped on the glass slide, the motor is started to rotate forwards to enable a push piece to move rightwards to make contact with the blood, then the motor is started to rotate backwards, thepush piece moves leftwards to smear the blood on the glass slide, manual smearing is not needed, uneven blood smearing is avoided, air can be blown out through the air blowing opening to air-dry the blood smear, and the working efficiency is high.

The invention relates to the field of medical instruments, and particularly discloses an automatic manufacturing device of a blood smear. The device comprises a conveying unit, a dropping pipette, a pushing piece, a drying tube and a dyeing tube. The conveying unit comprises a conveying belt and a conveying driving piece, a plurality of placing plates are arranged on the conveying belt at intervals, and annular baffles are arranged at the peripheries of the placing plates and are fixed to the conveying belt. The placing plates are slidably connected with the baffles, and sliding rods are fixedto the bottoms of the placing plates and penetrate through the conveying belt,the dropping pipette and the dyeing tube are both vertically arranged, and the pushing piece, the dropping pipette, the drying tube and the dyeing tube are all located on the placing plates. The device disclosed by the invention can be used for automatically manufacturing the blood smear so as to improve the manufacturing efficiency of the blood smear.

The invention relates to a reticulocyte classification and counting model construction method and application. A reticulocyte classification and counting model is constructed and used for classifyingand respectively counting reticulocytes and other common erythrocytes; the existing mature data set is taken as a first database; a plurality of blood smear micrographs are obtained, and a second database is formed after outline and category labeling of common red blood cells and reticulocytes is conducted; and samples are selected from the first database and the second database to complete two-stage training. Through the reticulocyte classification model, erythrocytes are automatically and efficiently classified and counted, and compared with manual statistics, the efficiency is qualitativelyimproved. The method is fair and objective, eliminates man-made and subjective factors, and has no interference of fatigue and other objective factors. The model has a self-learning attribute, the training efficiency of the recognition model is gradually improved along with the increase of high-quality labeled pictures, and the recognition and classification accuracy of the model can be continuously optimized.

The invention discloses a blood smear full-view intelligent analysis method which comprises the following steps: acquiring a plurality of original blood smear single-view images, establishing an original blood smear single-view image group, and establishing a blood smear full-view image based on the plurality of original blood smear single-view images; constructing an image restoration model basedon the first training set and the first verification set; constructing an image segmentation model based on the second training set and the second verification set, obtaining a third training set anda third verification set based on the plurality of segmented single blood cell images, and constructing an image recognition model; finally, acquiring a blood cell classification result. Full-view blood cells are analyzed on the basis of an artificial intelligence algorithm, interference of human factors is greatly reduced, objectivity of an inspection result is improved, and blood cell analysisand classification accuracy is high; recognition and analysis can be achieved for picture input meeting the requirements, the algorithm robustness and accuracy are higher than those of a traditional image recognition algorithm, an existing medical examination process is overturned, and the overall time is greatly shortened.

The invention discloses a fully automatic smear pushing dyeing system, and belongs to the field of a medical appliance. The fully automatic smear pushing dyeing system comprises a whole machine base plate, a smear feeding sampling three-axis module, a smear pushing module, a dyeing smear cabin module, a sample feeding smear taking three-axis module, a collection module, a sample position, a glassslide position, a sample feeding needle cleaning groove and a pushing cutter cleaning groove. A set of three-axis mechanical arm is used; the smear feeding sampling action is performed; a smear pushing shaft is used for performing angle regulation; after the smear pushing is completed, the second set of three-axis mechanical arm is used; a blood smear is collected to a dyeing smear with an inclined groove; dyeing is performed; then, cleaning and collection are performed. The fire-new angle regulating structure is used; the dyeing smear cabin structure with an inclined groove is used; the design is reasonable; the repeated performance is good; the reliability is high; a plurality of samples can be treated at the same time; the efficiency is improved; the uncertainty of manual smear pushingis avoided; convenience is provided for the fast diagnosis by medical personnel.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biology, and particularly relates to a compound staining solution of a piroplasma blood smear. The compound staining solution comprises a compound staining solution I and a compound staining solution II, wherein the compound staining solution I comprises 2g Swiss powder, 1.7g giemsa pigment, 50ml glycerol and 1000ml methanol; and the compound staining solution II comprises 2.3g anhydrous sodium dihydrogen phosphate, 0.3g anhydrous monopotassium phosphate and 1000ml distilled water. The staining method comprises the following steps: I, blood smear preparation, II, secondary treatment of the blood smear, and III, staining in the compound staining solution. The compound staining solution and the staining method have a better piroplasma staining effect without the help of high-end instruments and equipment, are economical and practical and have a very excellent effect; the required time is shorter; and no impurity interferes with observation of a piroplasma body.

The invention relates to a disposable doctor blade system. The disposable doctor blade system comprises a disposable doctor blade automatic pushing device, a doctor blade fixing device and a driving mechanism, wherein one side of one end part of the doctor blade fixing device is pivoted to the driving mechanism, and one side of the other end part of the doctor blade fixing device is connected with a driving plate of the driving mechanism, so that the doctor blade fixing device is driven by the driving plate of the driving mechanism to move in a first direction; the doctor blade fixing device comprises a doctor blade fetching position and a doctor blade pushing position; when the doctor blade fixing device is butted with a doctor blade pushing box of the disposable doctor blade automatic pushing device, the doctor blade fixing device is positioned in the doctor blade fetching position, and the disposable doctor blade automatic pushing device can push a disposable doctor blade out of the doctor blade box, and position the disposable doctor blade in the doctor blade fixing device; when the doctor blade fixing device is continuously moved to a preset position in the first direction, the doctor blade fixing device is positioned in the doctor blade pushing position. The disposable doctor blade system has the advantages that by adopting the disposable doctor blade, the repeated cleaning is not needed, the doctor blade can be automatically fetched and pushed, the convenience in use is realized, and the detection efficiency and accuracy are improved. The invention also provides a blood smear automatic manufacturing instrument.

The invention provides a full-automatic high-performance leukocyte segmentation method. In clinical diagnosis and treatment of a patient, classification and counting of white blood cells on a blood smear are very important. However, manual leukocyte classification and counting by hematologists are time-consuming and error-prone. According to the algorithm provided by the invention, a series of processing such as segmentation is carried out on the nuclear region through the zoomed saturation image, and then image processing such as difference is carried out on the green image and the blue imagenormalized by the red image, so that the purpose of automatically and accurately segmenting the cytoplasm region in the sub-image is achieved.

A non-label diagnosis apparatus for a hematologic malignancy may include a 3-D refractive index cell imaging unit configured to generate a 3-D refractive index slide image of a blood smear specimen by capturing a 3-D refractive index image in the form of the blood smear specimen in which blood (including a bone-marrow or other body fluids) of a patent has been smeared on a slide glass, an ROI detection unit configured to sample a suspected cell segment in the blood smear specimen based on the 3-D refractive index slide image and to determine, as ROI patches, cells determined as abnormal cells, and a diagnosis unit configured to determine a sub-classification of a cancer cell corresponding to each of the ROI patches using a cancer cell sub-classification determination model constructed based on a deep learning algorithm and to generate hematologic malignancy diagnosis results by gathering sub-classification results of the ROI patches.