Patent Document ID: 20140023260
Application ID: 13666343
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of segmenting a digital image of biological tissue, the computer including a processor, the method comprising acts of: generating, by the processor, a first weak or data driven segmentation of the digital image of the biological tissue to segment the digital image into a first set of biological units; assigning, by the processor, a rank to each biological unit in the first set of biological units based on a similarity in shape and scale between the biological unit and one or more other biological units in the first set of biological units, wherein a geometric model is used to define the similarity; selecting, by the processor, a subset of biological units from the first set of biological units based on the rank of each biological unit relative to a predetermined threshold rank; and generating, by the processor, a second weak or data driven segmentation of a portion of the digital image including the subset of biological units to segment the portion of the digital image into a second set of biological units.