Patent ID: 9370318
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method for assessing craniofacial malformations, the method comprising: receiving imaging data containing craniofacial anatomy of a plurality of subjects, the plurality of subjects including subjects of a first type and subjects of a second type; delineating bone tissue for each subject of the plurality of subjects from the received imaging data; registering the delineated bone tissue for each subject of the plurality of subjects to a reference space; identifying craniofacial bones for each subject of the plurality of subjects for which the registering has been performed; computing a shape model based on the identified craniofacial bones of only the first type of subjects; deriving, based on the computed shape model, for each subject of the plurality of subjects, a normal shape closest to a shape of the respective subject; and assessing for each subject of the plurality of subjects, a shape difference between the shape of the respective subject and the closest derived normal shape.