Patent ID: 8824755

Claim:
A method for automatically generating a statistical vascular model of a patient group, the method comprising: collecting tomographical image data records of vascular structures of the patient group; determining patient-related vascular coordinates models from a multiplicity of vascular landmark coordinates of vascular landmarks, centerline coordinates on vessel centerlines and vessel contour coordinates on vessel contour edge profiles; determining body landmark coordinates of body landmarks; registering the vascular landmark coordinates, the centerline coordinates and the vessel contour coordinates, using the body landmarks, to patient-related registered vascular coordinates models; determining patient-related vascular parameter models from the vascular landmark coordinates, neighborhood relationships of the vascular landmarks, characteristic geometrical parameters describing the vessel centerlines, and a shape of a vessel contour as a function of a relative distance from a given one of the vascular landmarks; merging the patient-related vascular parameter models to form at least one statistical vascular parameter model, determining statistical parameters of the at least one statistical vascular parameter model; and at least one of saving and outputting the at least one statistical vascular parameter model.