Patent ID: 7899220

Claim:
A computer based method for detecting and/or extracting from a series of time-dependent images of a surface of body parts of a creature anatomical features on surface measurements, said method comprising using invariant feature analysis to determine anatomical landmarks and shapes using said computer, wherein said invariant feature analysis comprises using said computer to fulfill predetermined conditions describing topographic characteristics of the surface of the body parts of the creature and using said computer to fulfill predetermined conditions describing topographic, topologic and/or volumetric characteristics of the interior of the body parts of the creature, and wherein said topographic characteristics of the surface of the body parts of the creature are curvature and symmetry of surface parts of the body parts of the creature and said topographic, topologic and/or volumetric characteristics of the interior of the body parts of a creature are the relative position, bending, torsion, equidistance and dynamical properties of interior parts of the body parts of the creature.