METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A ZONE IN AN OBJECT EXHIBITING A HIGHEST LEVEL OF STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION

A method and apparatus utilizes either a targetless approach or a target oriented approach to determine "attractors" in data fields of a physical property or set of physical properties of an object. A processing system implements the method which begins by first inputting a data field of a physical property or data fields of a set of physical properties of the object. Second, the processing system arranges the data of the data field or the data of each data field into a matrix. Third, the processing system transforms the data within the matrix or matrices to develop transformation matrices. Fourth, the processing system develops a base dichotomy matrix from each transformation matrix. Fifth, the processing system develops a full description set of matrices from the base dichotomy matrices. Sixth, in the targetless approach, the processing system selects the roots of the full description set of matrices and organizes the roots into sequences, or, alternatively in the target oriented approach, the processing system selects the branches of the full description set of matrices. Finally, the processing system displays either the roots in sequences to provide a representation of a zone within the object exhibiting a highest level of structural organization or the branches to provide a representation of a zone within the object exhibiting a highest level of structural similarity to a target zone within the object.