1. A system for generating training images for a pattern recognition classifier from three-dimensional image data representing an output class, said system comprising: a model constructor that constructs an image model in a standard coordinate domain from the three-dimensional image data; a model transformer that manipulates the image model in the standard coordinate domain to produce at least one manipulated image model; and an image restorer that maps the at least one manipulated image model from the standard coordinate domain to a coordinate domain associated with an image source utilized during the run-time operation of the pattern recognition classifier.