1. A method of detecting folds in a digitized medical image, comprising: receiving image data including a region of interest; calculating curvature characteristics at one or more points corresponding to a surface of the region of interest; identifying at least one of the one or more points as a seed point if its curvature characteristics correspond to a hyperbolic curvature; and detecting a fold by growing a region around the seed point to a predetermined thickness and identifying at least one fold feature within the region.