Patent ID: 8837791

Claim:
A method of locating anatomical features in a medical imaging dataset comprising: obtaining a medical imaging measurement dataset that comprises image data for a subject body as a function of position; and performing a registration procedure that comprises: performing a search and matching procedure to obtain a registration mapping between positions in the measurement dataset and positions in a reference dataset, wherein the reference dataset comprises reference image data for a reference body as a function of position, the reference dataset comprises at least one anatomical landmark, and each anatomical landmark is indicative of the position of a respective anatomical feature of the reference body, wherein the search and matching procedure includes matching image data values in the measurement dataset with image data values for corresponding positions in the reference dataset, and wherein the search and matching procedure is performed independently of any feature extraction, classification, and segmentation of the measurement data set; and using the registration mapping to map the positions of the anatomical landmarks to positions in the measurement dataset, thereby to assign positions to anatomical features in the measurement dataset.