Voting in mammography processing

A computer storage medium encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method for identifying areas of interest on an image, the method comprising:

• receiving a first set of results from at least a first image recognition process, the first set of results comprising a first set of identified initial areas of interest;
• receiving a second set of results from at least a second image recognition process, the second set of results comprising a second set of identified initial areas of interest;
• applying a voting function to the first and second sets of identified initial areas of interest to produce a final set of results comprising at least one final area of interest;
• and
• providing the final set of results.

A system for identifying areas of interest on an image, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
• receiving, from a first image recognition process, a first set of results comprising a first set of identified initial areas of interest;
• receiving, from a second image recognition process, a second set of results, comprising a second set of identified initial areas of interest;
• defining initial representations for the identified initial areas of interest in the first and second result sets;
• applying a first voting function to the representations of the first set of identified areas of interest to produce a first composite representation;
• applying a second voting function to the representations of the second set of identified areas of interest to produce a second composite representation;
• applying a third voting function to the first and second composite representations to produce a unified composite model;
• and
• identifying final areas of interest based on the unified composite model.