Patent Document ID: 20130044924
Application ID: 13588193
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying components within a vascular object from a signal, the method comprising: transmitting a signal within a selected region of the vascular object and collecting a backscatter signal reflected from the vascular object; reconstructing an image of the selected region from the backscatter signal; preparing a histology image of the selected region of the vascular object, the histology image distinguishing different components of the vascular object; selecting a region of interest from the histology image, the region of interest representing one component from the different components of the vascular object and being at a coordinate location on the histology image; mapping the coordinate location to a location on the image corresponding to the coordinate location; translating the location on the image to a signal portion in the backscatter signal corresponding to the location, the signal portion representing a signal signature of the one component of the vascular object; and correlating the signal signature to the one component using a classification tree scheme using GPUs.