A system comprising: a thermal camera; and a computing device configured to: receive master image data representative of the geometry of at least one of a theoretical gas turbine component, a fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or an average of a plurality of gas turbine components; receive, from the thermal camera, thermographic image data representative of the thermal response of a tested gas turbine component; morph the thermographic image data to align with the geometry of the master image data and produce morphed thermographic image data; and output a representation based on the morphed thermographic image data for display; wherein the computing device is further configured to: receive master image data representative of the thermal response of at least one of the theoretical gas turbine component, the fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or the average of the plurality of gas turbine components; compare thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data to thermal response data from the master image data to identify a discrepancy between the thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data and the thermal response data from the master image data; compare the discrepancy to a threshold value; and identify the discrepancy as representing a potential deficiency responsive to determining that the discrepancy is greater than the threshold value; characterized in that the computing device is configured to determine the threshold adaptively for a location corresponding to a potential deficiency of the morphed image based on the amount the thermographic image data was morphed at that location. a thermal camera; and a computing device configured to: receive master image data representative of the geometry of at least one of a theoretical gas turbine component, a fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or an average of a plurality of gas turbine components; receive, from the thermal camera, thermographic image data representative of the thermal response of a tested gas turbine component; morph the thermographic image data to align with the geometry of the master image data and produce morphed thermographic image data; and output a representation based on the morphed thermographic image data for display; receive master image data representative of the geometry of at least one of a theoretical gas turbine component, a fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or an average of a plurality of gas turbine components; receive, from the thermal camera, thermographic image data representative of the thermal response of a tested gas turbine component; morph the thermographic image data to align with the geometry of the master image data and produce morphed thermographic image data; and output a representation based on the morphed thermographic image data for display; wherein the computing device is further configured to: receive master image data representative of the thermal response of at least one of the theoretical gas turbine component, the fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or the average of the plurality of gas turbine components; compare thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data to thermal response data from the master image data to identify a discrepancy between the thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data and the thermal response data from the master image data; compare the discrepancy to a threshold value; and identify the discrepancy as representing a potential deficiency responsive to determining that the discrepancy is greater than the threshold value; receive master image data representative of the thermal response of at least one of the theoretical gas turbine component, the fabricated gold standard gas turbine component, or the average of the plurality of gas turbine components; compare thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data to thermal response data from the master image data to identify a discrepancy between the thermal response data from the morphed thermographic image data and the thermal response data from the master image data; compare the discrepancy to a threshold value; and identify the discrepancy as representing a potential deficiency responsive to determining that the discrepancy is greater than the threshold value; characterized in that the computing device is configured to determine the threshold adaptively for a location corresponding to a potential deficiency of the morphed image based on the amount the thermographic image data was morphed at that location. the computing device is configured to determine the threshold adaptively for a location corresponding to a potential deficiency of the morphed image based on the amount the thermographic image data was morphed at that location.