Patent ID: 8144963

Claim:
A method for processing biomedical images, comprising: acquiring a biomedical digitalized image of a suspicious area belonging to a patient to be examined; pre-processing the acquired biomedical digitalized image, to isolate a sub-image; selecting one or more regions of interest from the sub-image; tracing contours of the selected one or more regions of interest; extracting, from each of the selected one or more regions of interest, one or more features identifying a pathology; classifying the regions of interest, selected on the basis of the extracted features, by associating, to each region of interest, a value of the pathology existence probability, to early detect the pathology in the patient, wherein the selecting the one or more regions of interest comprises selecting, for each region of interest, a first set of initial seeds inside the region of interest comprising; verifying neighbouring points neighbouring the first set of initial seeds, to calculate a similarity value of the neighbouring points with the region of interest, and adding the neighbouring points to the first set of initial seeds if the similarity value of the neighbouring points is greater than a threshold value, wherein the extracting the one or more features identifying the pathology comprises, for each region of interest, a first iterative phase during which the threshold value is increased, thus drawing for each increased threshold value a corresponding sub-region of interest strictly included inside a previously considered region, and wherein the extracting the one or more features identifying the pathology comprises a second phase of interpolating values of all features of the features matrix for each sub-region of interest, thus obtaining an extrapolated feature value corresponding to an extrapolated threshold value.