Columbia University

Mela Sciences, Inc.

Austin D Reiter

Peter K Allen

Natalie J Tucker

Frank A DeBernardis

Minhaz Palasara

Multispectral digitized images are provided by utilizing 2 or more spectral bands, providing images and information regarding a pigmented or other differentiated tissue sample at differing depths. The images are transformed to enhance morphological patterns characteristic of melanoma, such as the statistical properties of the pigment network, image texture or homogeneity, and the lesion reflectance, in order to provide information about lesion morphology at different depths. The images can also be processed and transformed to extract features such as blood volume saturation, oxygen saturation, or other characteristics that can be identified based on differential reflectance or absorption of light.

Three dimensional tissue imaging system and method

A system and method for tracking a surgical implement in a patient can have an imaging system configured to obtain sequential images of the patient, and an image recognition system coupled to the imaging system and configured to identify the surgical implement in individual images. The image recognition system can be configured to identify the surgical implement relative to the patient in one of the images based, at least in part, on an identification of the surgical implement in at least one preceding one of the sequential images, and a probabilistic analysis of individual sections of the one of the images, the sections being selected by the image recognition system based on a position of the surgical implement in the patient as identified in the at least one preceding one of the images.

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Austin D Reiter