Identification of areas of interest in imaging applications
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorRaffaella Viola
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Abstract
A solution is proposed for analyzing an object. A corresponding method comprises providing one or more images of the objects (each comprising a plurality of cells containing corresponding values) to a computing system. The computing system retrieves a selected value reference and a selected shape reference for a selected characteristic of interest. The computing system identifies one or more areas of interest of the images according to the corresponding values matching the selected value reference and according to the corresponding cells matching the selected shape reference. A computer program product for performing the method and a corresponding system are also provided; moreover, a diagnostic method and a therapeutic method based on the same method are proposed.
Claims20
A method for analyzing an object, wherein the method comprises:
- providing, to a data receiving module, one or more input images of the object,
- wherein each input image comprises a plurality of input cells,
- wherein each input cell has an associated input value,
- wherein each input cell has a location identifier corresponding to a part of the object;
- providing, to the data receiving module, one or more reference values;
- providing, to the data receiving module, one or more reference shapes;
- identifying, by a cell identifier, one or more candidate cells of the plurality of input cells based on the associated input value for one or more of the input cells and the one or more reference values;
- identifying, by the cell identifier, one or more areas of interest based on the identified one or more candidate cells;
- comparing, by a comparison engine, one or more candidate cells to the one or more of the reference shapes to determine similarities;
- and
- reporting, via a reporting engine logically connected to a display, the candidate cells and results of the comparison.
A computer program product for analyzing an object, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable, by a computing system, to cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:
- providing, to a data receiving module, one or more input images of the object,
- wherein each input image comprises a plurality of input cells,
- wherein each input cell has an associated input value,
- wherein each input cell has a location identifier corresponding to a part of the object;
- providing, to the data receiving module, one or more reference values;
- providing, to the data receiving module, one or more reference shapes;
- identifying, by a cell identifier, one or more candidate cells of the plurality of input cells based on the associated input value for one or more of the input cells and the one or more reference values;
- identifying, by the cell identifier, one or more areas of interest based on the identified one or more candidate cells;
- comparing, by a comparison engine, two or more candidate cells to the one or more of the reference shapes to determine similarities;
- and
- reporting, via a reporting engine logically connected to a display, the candidate cells and results of the comparison.
A system for analyzing an object, wherein the system comprises:
- a data receiving module configured to receive one or more input images of the object, one or more reference values, and one or more reference shapes,
- wherein each input image comprises a plurality of input cells,
- wherein each input cell has an associated input value,
- wherein each input cell has a location identifier corresponding to a part of the object;
- a cell identifier, configured to identify one or more candidate cells of the plurality of input cells based on the associated input value for one or more of the input cells and the one or more reference values and identify one or more areas of interest based on the identified one or more candidate cells;
- a comparison engine configured to compare one or more candidate cells to the one or more of the reference shapes to determine similarities;
- and
- a reporting engine, configured to report, via a display logically connected to the system, the candidate cells and results of the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.