Patent Document ID: 8121364
Application ID: 12143582
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for computer aided analysis of images including: isolating a motion area in an image; segmenting the image; utilizing a support vector machine to identify a region of interest in the image; utilizing a graph-cut algorithm to refine the region of interest; and verifying the region of interest, wherein verifying the region of interest includes identifying the region as not being of interest if the region does not conform with a domain constraint, wherein the domain constraint is D i ≧T 1 (l i major +l j major ), where D i = min i ≠ m ⁢ D ⁡ ( i , m ) , ( i , m = 1 ⁢ … ⁢ ⁢ n ) , ⁢ j = arg ⁢ ⁢ min m ⁢ D ⁡ ( i , m ) , T 1 is a user-defined threshold, l i major is the major axis length of the ith region, l j major is the major axis length of the jth region, and D(i,m) is the Euclidian centroid distance between the ith and mth regions.