Patent ID: 7903862
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting geometrical structures in images, especially in images of chemical and/or biological samples, such as images of cells, said method comprising the following steps: detecting a boundary line of the image object; defining at least one sector inside the image, the origin (p transforming the image section defined by the sector into a transformation space by means of a transformation that associates signatures in the transformation space with respective geometrical structures in the image section; determining the presence of at least one signature inside the transformation space; and retransforming said signatures from the transformation space into the sector for the representation of the geometrical structure, wherein said geometrical structures are linear structures, and wherein the transformation associates a signature in the transformation space in particular to such linear structures present in the image section that pass substantially through the origin of the sector or whose linear projection substantially passes through the origin of the sector.