Patent Document ID: 7570802
Application ID: 10500342
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An automated detection algorithm embodied in a computer readable medium, the automated detection algorithm to compute a ring profile of colon like surface comprising the steps of: providing an original image of the colon like surface disposed along a major axis in a scan having vertex points, each vertex point having a discrete point identifier and three dimensional position information; generating a shrunken version of the colon like surface utilizing neighbors averaging of the three dimensional position information for every vertex point in the original colon view, wherein the shrunken version of the colon like surface has a same number of vertices as the original image of the colon like surface; modeling the shrunken version of the colon like surface with an ordered set of 3-D points to produce a curve proximate to the major axis of the colon like surface; isolating segments of vertex points between planes normal to the curve proximate to the major axis of the colon like surface from the shrunken version of the colon like surface; and mapping the isolated segments of vertex points from the shrunken version of the colon like surface back to the original image of the colon like surface to generate a ring profile of the colon like surface.