I think we can apply evolutionist algorithms in image processing. And it depends on the problem to solve. For example if the data are the pixels of the image then an image of 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 pixels so it is a milloin pixels (massive data)
May you more specify what do you mean by "finding interested area"? I is like segmenting some particular sections, what stage and what is modality of you data (images)?
http://borda.github.com/pyImSegm
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