Method and apparatus for acquisition, compression, and characterization of spatiotemporal signals

摘要

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for acquisition, compression, and characterization of spatiotemporal signals. In one aspect, the invention assesses self-similarity over the entire length of a spatiotemporal signal, as well as on a moving attention window, to provide cost effective measurement and quantification of dynamic processes. The invention also provides methods and apparatus for measuring self-similarity in spatiotemporal signals to characterize, adaptively control acquisition and/or storage, and assign meta-data for further detail processing. In some embodiments, the invention provides for an apparatus adapted for the characterization of biological units, and methods by which attributes of the biological units can be monitored in response to the addition or removal of manipulations, e.g., treatments. The attributes of biological units can be used to characterize the effects of the abovementioned manipulations or treatments as well as to identify genes or proteins responsible for, or contributing to, these effects.

主权项

1. A method of evaluating a dynamic system, comprising:
a. acquiring, by one or more processing devices, a plurality of images representative of the dynamic system in two or more dimensions; b. determining, by the one or more processing devices, a plurality of pairwise self-similarity values from a representative set of images that includes more than two images selected from the plurality of images, the plurality of pairwise self-similarity values being calculated between each image of the representative set and each of the other images in the representative set; and c. characterizing, by the one or more processing devices, the representative set of images based on a statistical function computed from the plurality of pairwise self-similarity values.