Patent ID: 8010381

Claim:
A system to facilitate diagnosis of a patient, comprising: a memory device having a plurality of routines stored therein; a processor configured to execute the plurality of routines stored in the memory device, the plurality of routines comprising: a routine configured to, when executed, access a patient deviation image generated through comparison of an anatomical feature of the patient and a standardized anatomical feature and indicative of at least one difference between the anatomical feature of the patient and the standardized anatomical feature, the at least one difference including a structural difference; a routine configured to, when executed, compare the patient deviation image to a plurality of reference deviation images, wherein the plurality of reference deviation images includes reference deviation images representative of a plurality of different severity levels of a disease type; a routine configured to, when executed, diagnose the patient as having a particular severity level of the disease type based at least in part on the comparison of the patient deviation image to the plurality of reference deviation images; and a routine configured to, when executed, at least one of store the diagnosis in the memory device or an additional memory device, or output the diagnosis to a user.