Patent ID: 7383237

Claim:
A method for automated analysis of a digitized microscope image of a medical specimen having a plurality of features of interest, the method comprising: storing a plurality of detection subsystems in a memory device in communication with a processor, wherein each of the plurality of detection subsystems comprises a pre-processing component for detecting and extracting one of the features of interest within the microscope image, a classification component comprising at least one first-level support vector machine for classifying the extracted feature of interest into at least one of a plurality of possible feature classes, an output for outputting the classified feature of interest, and an overall analyzer for combining the outputs of the plurality of detection subsystems and generating an analysis of the microscope image, the overall analyzer comprising a second-level support vector machine; receiving digitized microscope image data to be processed in the processor; and processing the digitized microscope image data to classify the features of interest and generate an output comprising an analysis of the digitized microscope image.