Method apparatus and system for analyzing images
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1. A method of identifying an internal thermally distinguishable region in a living body comprising:
- operating a thermospatial imaging system for imaging the living body and generating and storing in a memory a first thermospatial image describing a section of the living body when the living body is at a first posture, and a second thermospatial image describing said section of the living body when the living body is at a second posture, wherein each thermospatial image is defined over a three-dimensional (3D) spatial image of said body and has thermal data associated with a surface of the 3D spatial image;
retrieving said thermospatial images from said memory;
using a data processor of a computing platform for calculating a deformation function which maps a first 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said first posture, to a second 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said second posture, to determine correspondence between sets of picture-elements belonging to said first and said second thermospatial images;
determining, by said computing platform, transient thermal variation for each picture-element in at least one set and storing said transient thermal variation in the memory; and
estimating, by said computing platform, a location or presence of the internal thermally distinguishable region in the living body based on said transient thermal variations and generating, by said computing platform, an output indicative of the internal thermally distinguishable region.
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A method of identifying a thermally distinguishable region in a living body is disclosed. The method comprises determining transient thermal history of a surface of the living body, and estimating a location or presence of the thermally distinguishable region in the living body based on the transient thermal history.
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1. A method of identifying an internal thermally distinguishable region in a living body comprising:
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operating a thermospatial imaging system for imaging the living body and generating and storing in a memory a first thermospatial image describing a section of the living body when the living body is at a first posture, and a second thermospatial image describing said section of the living body when the living body is at a second posture, wherein each thermospatial image is defined over a three-dimensional (3D) spatial image of said body and has thermal data associated with a surface of the 3D spatial image; retrieving said thermospatial images from said memory; using a data processor of a computing platform for calculating a deformation function which maps a first 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said first posture, to a second 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said second posture, to determine correspondence between sets of picture-elements belonging to said first and said second thermospatial images; determining, by said computing platform, transient thermal variation for each picture-element in at least one set and storing said transient thermal variation in the memory; and estimating, by said computing platform, a location or presence of the internal thermally distinguishable region in the living body based on said transient thermal variations and generating, by said computing platform, an output indicative of the internal thermally distinguishable region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. Apparatus for locating an internal thermally distinguishable region within a living body, comprising:
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an input for receiving a first thermospatial image describing a section of the living body when the living body is at a first posture, and a second thermospatial image describing said section of a living body, wherein each thermospatial image is defined over a three-dimensional (3D) spatial image of said body and has thermal data associated with a surface of the 3D spatial image; and a computing platform configured for calculating a deformation function which maps a first 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said first posture, to a second 3D shape of said section of the living body, corresponding to said second posture, to determine correspondence between sets of picture-elements belonging to said first and said second thermospatial images, determining by the computing platform, transient thermal variation for each picture-element in at least set, and estimating, by the computing platform, a location or presence of the internal thermally distinguishable region in said section of the living body based on said transient thermal variations. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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