1. A method of detecting and analyzing suspected abnormalities in thoracic computer tomography (CT) images, comprising the steps of: performing object processing to segment different anatomical structures in the CT images in at least one of two-dimensional CT slices and three-dimensional CT scans, resulting in at least one segmented image; processing said at least one segmented image, said processing including at least one of image enhancement, object analysis, object detection, and image matching; and outputting at least one result of said processing step.