Patent ID: 7352920

Claim:
A computer-executed method for processing a pixilated image of a biological specimen, comprising: receiving respective portions of the image in a sequence; storing a data structure with a plurality of first elements on a computer-readable memory device, each first element corresponding to a respective portion of the image, the first elements being arrayed in a sequence determined according to the sequence in which the corresponding portions of the image are received; processing a plurality of pixels in each portion of the image in order to identify any areas of interest within the portion of the image; for each identified area of interest within a portion of the image, linking the first element in the data structure that corresponds to the portion of the image in which the identified area of interest is located to a separate second element, and entering information into the second element, thereby facilitating the transfer of pixel data in the image of the identified area of interest from a location outside of the working memory into the working memory; and transferring into the working memory the information in the second element corresponding to at least one of the identified areas of interest; and displaying the pixel data of at least one of the identified areas of interest, which have been transferred into the working memory.