(MVTec: Munich, Germany) -- As part of the “Medical Discovery Tour” at VISION 2011, scheduled for Nov. 8–10, 2011, in Stuttgart, Germany, MVTec Software will present HALCON 10, its standard software for image processing. In medical engineering, different imaging methods are used. Among other applications, HALCON provides the following possibilities:

Color processing. For medical imaging applications, color images are very important. Here it is necessary to exactly classify colors and relating gray values. Therefore, highly powerful color classifiers are needed that can handle complex multi-channel images. HALCON provides multilayer perceptron, support vector machine, or Gaussian mixture models. Primarily, these color classifiers are used in cytology, cell biology diagnostics, and pathology for tissue and cancer identification.

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