Patent ID: 7098929

Claim:
Method for display of medical images comprising the following steps: (a) selecting a partitioning of an image display area from a predefined set of partitionings and displaying a representation of the partitioning of the image display area in an image selection area, (b) displaying representations of images of a set of images in the image selection area, (c) assigning a selected representation of an image to be displayed to an area of the representation of the partitioning via a graphical user interface, (d) displaying the image in a part of the image display area that corresponds to the area of the representation of the partitioning, and (e) sorting the representations of the images by creation dates, and causing the representations of images with the same creation date to fade-in or fade out by the operation of a first button, associated with the representation of images with the same creation date, of the graphical user interface, wherein where the image representations for a creation date are viewable, the button is represented as a minus sign (−), operation of which causes the representations to fade-out, and where the button is represented as a plus sign (+), operation of which caused the image representation for a creation date to fade-in.