Patent ID: 8111284

Claim:
A method of extrapolating 3-Dimensional positional data of a human subject, from a 2-Dimensional image, the method comprising: receiving 2-dimensional image data associated with an acquired image, which image captures at least a portion of a human subject; computationally identifying anatomical structures of the human subject within the 2-Dimensional data; matching 3-Dimensional skeletal model elements with the identified structures within the 2-Dimensional data, wherein the skeletal model defines spatial relational constraints between two or more anatomical structures of a human body; and extrapolating positional information of at least one of the identified structures, which positional information relates to the physical position of the structure at the time the acquired image was captured, based on comparison of 2-dimensional projections of the matched skeletal model elements to positions of the identified anatomical structures within the received image data.