Image Analysis Technology

Image analysis uses a set of pattern recognition techniques to enable computer systems to recognize and interpret images. Image analysis consists of two stages: image processing and analysis, and pattern recognition. Image processing and analysis includes steps such as image repair to improve quality and usability issues, and feature extraction for the subsequent pattern recognition stage. Pattern recognition includes an area of interest location within the original image, data extraction and the validation of an existing representation or context.

Examples of image analysis:

• Region of interest location on letters, flats, and parcels
• Automatic indicia location and detection on envelope images
• Check stock verification and signature authentication
• Identification of suspicious areas in medical images such as mammograms

Parascript has accumulated decades of experience in extracting and interpreting meaningful information from images in areas such as document processing, fraud detection, and medical imaging. Our image analysis and pattern recognition technology interprets human thinking patterns based on cognitive science, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. Parascript successfully deals with the challenge of applying image analysis technology to the most challenging banking and financial services, postal and mail processing, and healthcare requirements.

With Parascript image analysis and pattern recognition technology, you can automatically and accurately capture and interpret any type of text, including cursive, handprint and machine print, from forms, checks, and mail, dramatically reducing data entry expenses in postal and payment automation and forms processing.

Region of interest location on letters, flats and parcels

In postal automation applications, for example, Parascript image analysis technology automatically locates the destination address on different mail pieces such as letters, flats, and parcels. The technology addresses the variety of formats, backgrounds, and noise typical for these images. It successfully differentiates between the region of interest and other information present on the image and then recognizes addresses, applying contextual information such as a postal database, to ensure high recognition rates and accuracy.

Automatic indicia location and detection on envelope images

The postal and mail processing industry also benefits from automatic indicia location and detection on envelope images or U.S. postal stationary for stamps, meter marks, facing identification marks, and information-based indicia. Parascript image analysis technology successfully determines the types and total values for all valid indicia types.

Check stock verification and signature authentication

The same powerful technology is at the core of Parascript solutions that ensure reliable fraud detection and prevention. In particular, our check stock verification and signature authentication solution leverages image analysis and pattern recognition to exploit the most comprehensive and advanced methods available in check forgery detection, and the signature verification of financial documents and mail-in ballots. Automatic comparison is executed by a powerful combination of verifiers using a number of fundamentally different algorithms, and combining a human-like holistic analysis of a signature and signature segmentation with a subsequent analysis of the signature elements.

Identification of suspicious areas in medical images

Another area of research and application for Parascript image analysis and pattern recognition technology is medical imaging. Parascript image analysis algorithms automatically identify and clearly mark suspicious areas without obscuring the region of interest, enabling more accurate interpretation of mammograms and increased detection of calcifications and masses. The technology integrates several complementary algorithms and sophisticated voting methods to achieve high sensitivity and low false-positive rates for greater levels of certainty.

Over the years, Parascript has been established as a trusted provider of state-of-the-art solutions applying image analysis and pattern recognition algorithms to a number of markets. The universality of our image analysis algorithms and methods, as well as the broad range of expertise and knowledge accumulated by Parascript, allows us to quickly and efficiently apply this technology to a broader range of fields to bring the benefits of exceptional accuracy of region of interest location and low false-positive rates to the attention of the medical imaging industry.