Patent ID: 8803911
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A mammography workstation comprising: at least one computer display; a computer processor connected to the at least one computer display, the computer processor also connected to a local memory storage device and a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) service; a workstation application running on the computer processor, the workstation application configured to provide a user interface to be displayed on the at least one computer display, the user interface comprising a viewing sequence configuration interface that includes a plurality of selectable buttons, the selection of which results in a stepped viewing sequence of mammogram images arranged in hanging protocols, the stepped viewing sequence including at least one standard 4-view mammogram, at least one 2-view mammogram, at least one comparison view, and a bilateral mammogram image with an overlaid viewing mask; and at least one input device suitable to allow a user to select desired buttons of the plurality of selectable buttons and to allow a user to step through the stepped viewing sequence of mammogram images according to the stepped viewing sequence created using the viewing sequence configuration interface.