Patent Document ID: 10004403
Application ID: 14837120
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of non-destructive imaging of an anomalous tissue in a region of interest, the method comprising: a) illuminating the region of interest with light in multiple spectral bands, each of the spectral bands being associated with a respective predetermined depth value in the tissue; b) capturing, with a camera, a two-dimensional image of the region of interest under illumination by the light in each of the spectral bands; c) identifying a first anomaly area containing the anomalous tissue within the image of a topmost spectral band; d) applying the first anomaly area to each of the images of the spectral bands that are deeper than the topmost; e) segmenting each of the images of the deeper spectral bands, one by one, wherein the segmenting automatically identifies pixels belonging to the anomalous tissue, isolating a shape of the anomalous tissue; f) halting the segmentation of the images of the deeper spectral bands when the anomalous tissue is no longer detected; g) determining a set of data points for each of the segmented images, wherein each set of data points has lateral position data defining a position within a respective spectral plane at a respective depth value; h) transforming each set of data points for each segmented image into a single three-dimensional anomaly volume by additionally applying the predetermined depth value to each of the respective set of data points for each segmented image, yielding transformed sets of data points, respectively, each data point within each of the transformed sets of data points thereby assigning lateral position and depth data values; i) rendering an image of the three-dimensional anomaly volume by plotting the transformed sets of data points; and j) displaying the rendered image to a user.