Patent ID: 8195299

Claim:
A method for identifying a coronal suture on a cranium, the method comprising: acquiring image data of craniums from a plurality of patients; creating a database that includes spatial relationships of various craniometric landmarks of each patient of the plurality of patients sorted by a desired population characteristic, wherein creating the database for each patient further comprises: identifying a glabella and an inion on the cranium; defining a midpoint between the glabella and the inion; identifying a bregma; defining a first vector from the midpoint to a bregma of the cranium; and defining a plurality of vectors from the midpoint to the coronal suture between a right and a left extremity of the coronal suture; establishing a region of interest using a processor based on a variance of locations of the craniometric landmarks between the plurality of patients for the desired characteristic; and performing a criteria search of acquired image data from a specific patient that is limited to only the region of interest to identify a coronal suture for that specific patient.