Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-08
2011-03-08
Tabatabai, Abolfazl (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C382S199000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07903862
ABSTRACT:
A method for detecting geometrical structures in images, especially in images of chemical and/or biological samples, such as images of cells, the method comprising the following steps: detecting a boundary line of the image object; defining at least one sector inside the image, the origin (pk) of which lies on the boundary line; transforming the image section defined by the sector into a transformation space by means of a transformation that associates signatures in the transformation space with respective geometrical structures in the image section; determining the presence of at least one signature inside the transformation space; and retransforming the signatures from the transformation space into the sector for the representation of the geometrical structure.
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Jetzek Fritz
Kirsch Achim
Evotec Technologies GmbH
Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP
Tabatabai Abolfazl
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