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.”