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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2011
Daniel Carl Mueller, Eindhoven, NL;
Dirk Leo Joep Vossen, Eindhoven, NL;
Bas Hulsken, Nijmegen, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention pertains to the field of image processing in digital pathology. It notably proposes a method for processing a first digital image, representing a sample in a region, and which image has been acquired from the sample by means of a microscopic imaging system () and is stored in a multi-resolution image data structure (), comprising the steps of:—retrieving () a sub-region of the first digital image at a first resolution, —executing () a transform function on the retrieved sub-region, the transform function modifying a content of the sub-region according to at least one metric derived from a second resolution representation of the first digital image.