MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERNAL BIOLOGICAL TISSUE

摘要

A light image is conveyed from internal biological tissue through a flexible optical system (13) to an image receiver (14), where it is converted to a form which may be entered into a computer (15). The computer segments the image by generating a segmentation mask defining the boundary of a region of interest in at least one spectral band, estimates at least one rotationally and translationally invariant statistical measure of coefficient distributions of the multiscale wavelet maxima representations of the digital images in at least one spectral band, characterizes the condition of the tissue based on the estimated values and outputs the characterization of the condition of the tissue.