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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
May. 11, 2011
Shashidhar Sathyanarayana, Union City, CA (US);
Shashidhar Sathyanarayana, Union City, CA (US);
Scimed Life Systems, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
The systems and methods described herein provide for fast and accurate image segmentation through the application of a multi-stage classifier to an image data set. An image processing system is provided having a processor configured to apply a multi-stage classifier to the image data set to identify a distinctive region. The multi-stage classifier can include two or more component classifiers. The first component classifier can have a sensitivity level configured to identify one or more target regions in the image data set and the second component classifier can have a specificity level configured to confirm the presence of the distinctive region in any identified target regions. Also provided is a classification array having multiple multi-stage classifiers for identification and confirmation of more than one distinctive region or for the application of different classification configurations to the image data set to identify a specific distinctive region.