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, wherein the digital signal processor is configured for classifying the one or more data sets based on (a) characteristics of the electronic data related to spatial regions of the optical image, and (b) the one or more image attributes, and is further configured for classifying the one or more data sets based on power spectrum estimates for each of a plurality of identification subsets within the electronic data.