Method and apparatus for examining an item in which an automated evaluation unit undergoes a learning process

An examination apparatus for examining an item under examination in a form of a person or a container, the examination apparatus comprising:

• a determination unit for determining a relevance level assigned to the item under examination, including a hazard level;
• an image capture unit for capturing an image of the item under examination;
• a database;
• an automated evaluation unit for automatically evaluating at least one section of the image using said database, said automated evaluation unit connected to said image capture unit and said database;
• a further evaluation unit operated by a user for a visual evaluation of at least one section of the image by the user;
• an input unit for inputting at least one evaluation input by the user;
• and a database processing unit connected to and processing said database, said database processing unit processing at least one database entry using the evaluation input in conjunction with a determination of the relevance level;
• said automated evaluation unit configured to undergo a learning process resulting from a confirmation that said automated evaluation unit has correctly automatically evaluated the at least one section of the image, the confirmation being the at least one evaluation input by the user, wherein the database entry contains image data which are assigned to a reference item and are stored in at least one format suitable for an image recognition method, wherein the database entry contains a confidence parameter which affects the assignment to the reference item.