System and method for the visualization and characterization of objects in images

A method of visualizing and characterizing a feature in an image, comprising:

• applying a first local micro-contrast convergence algorithm to a first image to produce a second image that is separate and distinct from the first image, wherein the second image includes the feature,
• wherein applying the first local micro-contrast convergence algorithm includes iteratively and sequentially applying each of a plurality of non-linear discontinuous transfer functions to a corresponding image in a sequential set of images including the first image and one or more intermediate images, wherein each subsequent image in the sequential set of images is generated by applying one of the plurality of non-linear discontinuous transfer functions to a previous image in the sequential set of images thereby resulting in generation of the second image to reveal and characterize, in the second image, the feature including a physical or biological structural visualized and characterized pattern that was present but undifferentiated in the first image;
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• wherein local micro-contrast convergence represents a sequence of transfer functions including the two or more non-linear discontinuous transfer functions wherein at least one of the two or more non-linear discontinuous transfer functions includes at least one discontinuity to cause neighboring pixel groups representative of specific structures to converge to cause relationships among neighboring pixel groups to aggregate into particular color and luminosity patterns,
• wherein the two or more non-linear discontinuous transfer functions including the at least one discontinuity cause the physical or biological structural visualized and characterized pattern to include a tissue feature differentiation,
• wherein the two or more non-linear discontinuous transfer functions including the at least one discontinuity cause the physical or biological structural visualized and characterized pattern to include a boundary of cancerous and benign tissue structures in the second image, and
• wherein the two or more non-linear discontinuous transfer functions including the at least one discontinuity cause the physical or biological structural visualized and characterized pattern to define an internal geometry of cancerous and/or benign tissue structures in the second image.