1. An imaging system, comprising optics having one or more phase modifying elements that modify wavefront phase to introduce one or more image attributes into an optical image; a detector that converts the optical image to electronic data while maintaining the image attributes; and a digital signal processor for subdividing the electronic data into one or more data sets, classifying the one or more data sets based at least on the image attributes, and independently processing the one or more data sets, based on results of the classifying, to form processed electronic data.