Patent ID: 8060178
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: A61B,G06K,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for comparing an image corresponding to a case in question to a set of training images based on similar content in the images during a medical procedure for a patient in order to provide a medical diagnosis, the method comprising: receiving image data from a sensor representing a particular medical measurement; comparing the received image data with training images; deriving distance values between the received image data and the training images, wherein the distance values are derived in a reduced discriminative classification space; deriving probability values for the received image data for a set of identified classes of the training images based on a likelihood map that is back-projected from the reduced discriminative classification space to an original feature space; and outputting a set of images that have shortest distance measurements for each of the identified classes and corresponding distance values.