COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS, COMPUTING DEVICES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PROCESSING VOLUMETRIC SCANNING DATA AND ANALYZING A PERFORMANCE OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented methods, computing devices and computer programs for processing computed tomography (CT) scanning data and analyzing the performance of structural elements represented by computed tomography scanning data. A computer-implemented method for processing volumetric scanning data comprises obtaining (110) volumetric scanning data of a structural element, the structural element comprising a plurality of instances of two or more types of components. The volumetric scanning data is represented by a plurality of voxels. The method comprises assigning (120) the plurality of voxels to one of the two or more different types of components identifying (130), for each type of component, the voxels that are part of a surface of an instance of the component. The method comprises extracting (140) the surfaces of the instances of the components using the voxels that are part of the surface of the respective type of component. The method comprises determining (170) information on a structural integrity of the structural element based on the extracted surfaces.