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news.Aperio Technologies, a provider of systems and services for digital pathology, has received a new patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office that covers systems and methods for image pattern recognition using vector quantization or VQ. This is Aperio's second patent on the use of VQ for pattern recognition applications.
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Aperio’s VQ technology enables content-based image retrieval to allow pathologists and researchers to search libraries of digital slides using image data, and to efficiently retrieve similar images from a large image archive.
Aperio’s patent portfolio encompasses all of the elements that comprise a digital pathology system, including digital slide creation, data management, advanced visualization, and image analysis. Aperio holds over 30 issued patents and pending patent applications world-wide.
Dirk Soenksen, CEO of Aperio, said: “Vector quantization is a breakthrough technology providing a novel way to perform content-based image retrieval. The image pattern recognition technology covered by this patent is unique in that it does not rely on prior knowledge of image-based features, but involves statistical comparisons to imagery data that exhibit characteristics of interest.”