摘要 |
A multispectral topography system (12) and method is provided whereby an image of mammalian matter (20), illuminated with white light (43), is transmitted to a multispectral imaging prism and mirror spectrograph (30) which substantially simultaneously spectrally disperses the transmitted light. The system then digitizes and manipulates the spectral image for further processing. The processor (70), typically resident in a computer system, processes the digital spectral data with a hybrid neural network to provide a diagnosis of the matter. The matter could be stained, pathological specimens to be magnified and analyzed by a standard, optical, transmission microscope (40), or, alternatively, in vivo (live) matter whose image is transmitted by another conventional white light image transmitter, such as an endoscope. The system is also capable of displaying the transmitted visual image (58) as well as the spectral image (38) in conjunction with the diagnostic output. |