Patent ID: 7181056
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for automatic detection of regions of interest in a digital image representing at least one portion of biological tissue, said regions of interest being detected by classifying all regions of said digital image as suspect regions or not, using at least one classifier referred to as Support-Vector Machine (SVM), wherein said method further comprises: providing a first set of positive examples representing suspect regions of said biological tissue; providing a second set of negative examples representing non-suspect regions of said biological tissue; providing a representation of said all regions, of said first set, of said second set, said representation being characterized by not entering any information regarding the characteristics of the regions that are to be detected; generating a model for the detection of said regions of interest based on said representation of said first set and said representation of said second set using said Support-Vector Machine; comparing said representation of said all regions of said digital image with said model for classifying said all regions of said digital image as suspect regions or not.