Patent ID: 11967068
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, implemented in a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method comprising:
generating a plurality of candidate bounding boxes for each of a plurality of image slices of imaged tissue, each generated candidate bounding box having a probability score;
collecting at least some of the generated candidate bounding boxes for each slice;
filtering the collected candidate bounding boxes by size, wherein filtering the collected candidate bounding boxes by size comprises filtering out candidate bounding boxes that are larger than a second threshold size and reducing a probability score of each candidate bounding box that is smaller than a third threshold size;
generating a heat map of the candidate bounding boxes and filtering the candidate bounding boxes in the heat map based on a first threshold of values in the heat map;
performing Non-Maximum Suppression on the heat map filtered candidate bounding boxes; and
outputting at least one bounding box based on the probability score.