Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Computer vision technology has long been an int erest in the field of biomedical imaging. Analysis of tissue samples, in particu lar, can often be tedious, weakly quantitative, and difficult to reproduce due t o the vast quantities of data that need to be analyzed. Recently, machine learni ng based computer vision systems in other fields have achieved performance level s that suggest that significant improvements can be realized in biomedical imagi ng. However, these learning based systems often require input data that contains labels designating the items of interest.