Patent ID: 6757412
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for helping to determine a condition of selected tissue of a patient, said system comprising:memory storing a plurality of images of the selected tissue acquired over a time period to define an image set, each of said images of said image set including a plurality of image regions, each of said image regions having a characteristic that is variable over the time period indicative of a temperature condition of an associated part of the selected tissue, said memory also storing a statistical classifier that describes temperature characteristics of previously diagnosed tissue samples having a known tissue condition; and a processor connected with said memory, said processor being operative to determine at least one feature value for at least one of said image regions, said at least one feature value being indicative of at least part of the characteristic of said at least one image region over the time period, said processor being operative to apply said statistical classifier to said at least one feature value to provide an indication of the condition of the part of the selected tissue of the patient associated with said at least one image region.