Patent ID: 8870750

Claim:
An imaging method for medical diagnostics, comprising the steps of: implementing an endoscopic examination of a body region of a subject using an endoscope and, with said endoscope, obtaining an endoscopic image; in real time during the endoscopic examination, operating a non-endoscopic imaging apparatus to produce real time non-endoscopic image data using a non-endoscopic imaging method and, generating a real time non-endoscopic image of the body region in real time during the endoscopic examination from said real time non-endoscopic image data; automatically determining an image field of the endoscope in which said endoscopic image is obtained; displaying the determined image field of the endoscope in a display of the real time non-endoscopic image with a correct position and orientation corresponding to the position and orientation of the endoscope; and automatically demarcating a region of interest in said image field of said endoscope displayed in the display of the real time non-endoscopic image.