Patent Document ID: 9552645
Application ID: 13380079
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for splitting a potential three-dimensional compound object, comprising: projecting three-dimensional image data indicative of the potential three-dimensional compound object along a first dimension to generate a two-dimensional manifold projection from the three-dimensional image data and recording a correspondence between the three-dimensional image data and the two-dimensional manifold projection, wherein each pixel in the two-dimensional manifold projection represents a stack of voxels in the three-dimensional image data that extend along the first dimension; segmenting the two-dimensional manifold projection to generate a two-dimensional segmented manifold projection indicative of one or more sub-objects, the segmenting comprising eroding a portion of the two-dimensional manifold projection; and projecting the two-dimensional segmented manifold projection into three-dimensional image data indicative of the sub-objects utilizing the correspondence between the three-dimensional image data and the two-dimensional manifold projection.