Patent ID: 8331635

Claim:
A method of aligning and registering volumetric medical imaging data of a human body, comprising the steps of: establishing a three dimensional coordinate system to segment the body into a plurality of regions, further comprising: establishing a first coordinal plane along a first axis of the body, establishing a second coordinal plane, perpendicular to the first plane, and establishing a third coordinal plane, perpendicular to both the first and second planes, along a third axis of the body; defining an intersection point of the planes as 0, 0, 0; obtaining volumetric medical imaging data of the body using the 0, 0, 0 intersection point; defining an anatomical structure of the body in the medical imaging data by comparing the medical imaging data to a plurality of data sets, wherein the plurality of data sets contains preexisting medical imaging data of one or more human bodies; and analyzing the anatomical structure in relation to the plurality of data sets using the three dimensional coordinate system to statistically define normal or pathological morphological features in the medical imaging data.