Illumina, Inc.
Artificial Intelligence-Based Generation of Sequencing Metadata

Abstract:

The technology disclosed uses neural networks to determine analyte metadata by (i) processing input image data derived from a sequence of image sets through a neural network and generating an alternative representation of the input image data, the input image data has an array of units that depicts analytes and their surrounding background, (ii) processing the alternative representation through an output layer and generating an output value for each unit in the array, (iii) thresholding output values of the units and classifying a first subset of the units as background units depicting the surrounding background, and (iv) locating peaks in the output values of the units and classifying a second subset of the units as center units containing centers of the analytes.