Patent ID: 8615133

Claim:
A method for analyzing an image comprising: (1) providing an image comprising a plurality of locations, each location corresponding to data; (2) receiving user input identifying at least one location in the image having data representing a feature of interest and classifying the location and its associated data in a first class; (3) receiving user input identifying at least one location in the image having data that is not representative of the feature of interest and classifying the location and its associated data in a second class; (4) selecting a sample of locations in the image having data and classifying the locations and its associated data in the second class; (5) performing statistical analysis on the data in the first class and the second class to generate a transformation function that relates the data to a probability of each of the locations being the feature of interest; (6) classifying locations having a high probability of being a feature of interest in the second class; (7) repeating steps (4) through (6) a predetermined number of times; (8) setting a threshold value based on the probability of each location being the feature of interest; (9) designating locations having a value above the threshold value as being a feature of interest and designating locations having a value below the threshold value as not being a feature of interest; and (10) presenting the image showing locations of the feature of interest.