I was able to get this to work just using the following and manual selecting a point in the middle. I decided it wasn't worth it to automate.
mid=300 %select low and high data, mid is a point in the occlusion area
y_low=y(x<mid)
x_low=x(x<mid)
y_high=y(x>mid)
x_high=x(x>mid)
plot(x_low,y_low,'.')
plot(x_high,y_high,'.')