1. An image processing method, comprising: receiving an indication corresponding to a location in an image, the image comprising a first plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of values, the image stored in a memory; identifying a region coincident with the location, the region comprising a second plurality of pixels; extracting a plurality of recognition channels from the second plurality of pixels; identifying a first site in each of the plurality of recognition channels; identifying a prominence bitmask for each of the plurality of recognition channels, each prominence bitmask corresponding to an artifact in the image; and determining at least one metric for each of the plurality of prominence bitmasks.