1. A cognitive-neural method for detecting and prioritizing items of interest in visual imagery, comprising an act of initializing one or more processors to perform operations of: detecting a set of potential items of interest in an image using a cognitive algorithm; prioritizing the set of potential items of interest using neural analysis to produce a set of prioritized items of interest, whereby items of interest in the image are detected and prioritized; and adapting the cognitive algorithm based on the prioritized items of interest from the neural analysis.