Patent Document ID: 20050117787
Application ID: 10500342
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An automated detection algorithm to compute the ring profile of colon like surfaces comprising the steps of: providing an original image of a 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 thin version of the colon like surface utilizing neighbors averaging of the three dimensional position information for every vertex point in the original colon view; modeling the thin 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 (along) between planes normal to the curve proximate to the major axis of the colon from the thin version of the colon like surface; mapping the isolated segments of vertex points from the thin 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.