1. A method for retrieving an area of interest of an image stored in a storage device, the image being associated with statistical data stored along with the image, the method being implemented by a computer system that includes one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the method comprising: selecting, by the one or more processors, the area of interest having user desired features, the stored image being divided into a plurality of polygonal image sections, each polygonal image section having substantially homogenous features, and at least two polygonal image sections in the plurality of polygonal image sections have different polygonal shapes defining different area sizes, each polygonal image section comprising a plurality of pixels and each pixel having a plurality of bands and a higher bit depth per band with a bit depth greater than 8 bits per band, the statistical data comprising statistical data of each band of each pixel within each polygonal image section, the statistical data being stored with the data of each corresponding polygonal image section in the storage device, the image being further divided into a plurality of quads such that each quad has boundaries that contains at least a portion of a first polygonal image section and at least a portion of a second polygonal image section; determining, by the one or more processors, in which quad in the plurality of quads each pixel of the area of interest is located; determining, by the one or more processors, for each quad, in which portion of the first polygonal image section or portion of the second polygonal image section each pixel of the area of interest is located; and upon locating each pixel with the higher bit depth per band within the area of interest, retrieving pixels of the area of interest from the storage device.