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Automatic identification of image features is described. In an embodiment, a device automatically identifies organs in a medical image using a decision forest formed of a plurality of distinct, trained decision trees. An image element from the image is applied to each of the trained decision trees to obtain a probability of the image element representing a predefined class of organ. The probabilities from each of the decision trees are aggregated and used to assign an organ classification to the image element. In another embodiment, a method of training a decision tree to identify features in an image is provided. For a selected node in the decision tree, a training image is analyzed at a plurality of locations offset from a selected image element, and one of the offsets is selected based on the results of the analysis and stored in association with the node.
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