Patent ID: 8180127

Claim:
A method to prepare medical 2D or 3D data, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a data set comprised of medical 2D or 3D data; (b) segmenting the data set with predeterminable first segmentation parameters, to obtain and store a first data set with segmented data and a second data set with data complementary to the first data set; (c) segmenting the first data set or second data set with segmentation parameters modified relative to step (b), to generate a third data set with segmented data and a fourth data set with data complementary to the third data set, and offsetting the first data set and/or second data set against the third data set and/or fourth data, to obtain a corrected first data set and/or second data set; (d) providing presets comprised of predetermined color or grey value tables that respectively associate colors or grey values with individual data value ranges; (e) automatically associating the preset with the first data set and second data set, respectively; and (f) presenting at an output unit at least one slice or volume image of the first and/or second data set as a resulting image/resulting images in colors/grey scales according to the associated presets.