Patent ID: 8537159

Claim:
A method of visualizing one or more sets of voxel data, the set of voxel data representing a three dimensional (3D) image of at least a part of a mammal body, the method comprising: providing one or more sets of voxel data comprising spatial information for each voxel point, and, for each voxel point, a corresponding set of voxel values; providing a segment model of the part of the mammal body, and segmenting the voxel data in accordance with this segment model; reformatting the segmented voxel data to fit a reference shape, the reference shape being defined by at least an inner reference surface and an outer reference surface; mapping the reformatted voxel data to a target shape, the target shape being defined by at least a first target surface and a second target surface; visualizing the target shape; wherein the mapping of the reformatted voxel data to a target shape is a mapping of one or more property values from the inner reference surface to the first target surface, and from the outer reference surface to the second target surface, the one or more property values being based on at least one voxel value from the one or more sets of voxel values, and wherein a direction extending along the inter-surface distance of the reference shape is maintained in the target shape.