Patent ID: 8634614

Claim:
A method for analyzing and evaluating of at least one anatomical structure in a medical image, said medical image representing at least a part of a patient or person, said method comprising the steps of: a. mapping and registering the medical image to a reference image thereby segmenting the medical image, wherein the reference image is a segmented medical image based on and averaged over a plurality of medical images obtained from normal persons, b. analysing the segmented medical image for calculating the volume and/or providing the shape of the said anatomical structure(s), and c. providing a confidence interval of the volume and/or the shape of the analysed anatomical structure(s) based on individual data of the patient or person by analysing a database comprising information of normal volume and/or shape of said anatomical structure(s) corresponding to said individual data thereby quantifying the normality of said anatomical structure(s).