Patent ID: 9430706
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting a pathology frame sequence in an image stream captured in a body lumen, the method comprising: receiving an image stream comprising a plurality of image frames captured in a body lumen; receiving a pathology score for at least one image frame of the image frames, the pathology score indicating a probability that at least one pathology is included in an image frame; selecting, based on the pathology score, a seed frame from the image frames, the seed frame being an image frame that is likely to include at least one pathology candidate; selecting a pathology candidate in the seed frame; and tracking the pathology candidate in consecutive image frames adjacent to the seed frame in at least one of a forward direction or a backward direction with respect to the time of capture of the image frames, to identify a sequence of image frames adjacent to the seed frame and which comprises the pathology candidate.