Patent ID: 8184874

Claim:
A method carried out by a computer of processing a digital radiographic medical image, comprising: accessing the digital radiographic medical image; determining a plurality of enlarged regions of interest; for each of at least one and another of the plurality of regions of interest: (a) determining at least one candidate region of interest (ROI) disease; (b) identifying one ROI disease from the at least one candidate region of interest; (c) determining a processing method appropriate to the identified one ROI disease; and (d) applying the determined processing method appropriate to the region of interest to generate a disease enhanced region of interest; wherein the disease identified in said one of said plurality of regions of interest is different from the disease identified in said another of said plurality of regions of interest and wherein the processing method is different for each of said identified diseases; and displaying the digital radiographic medical image and the at least one and another of the disease enhanced regions of interest.