Patent ID: 7174515

Claim:
An independent display system for a computer aided detection (CAD) system that analyzes medical images, the independent display system comprising: an autoload logic to enable a technician to individually associate a plurality of CAD-processed digitized medical images with a corresponding plurality of lightbox buttons, the lightbox buttons being spatially arranged within a lightbox icon to reflect a physical arrangement of a plurality of lightboxes on which a plurality of film-based medical images from which said digitized medical images have been derived are placed; an input mechanism to receive an image identifier for each of said film-based medical images during said individual associations; a touch screen to display the digitized medical images including any marked regions of interest; a plurality of icons to interact with the touch screen, such that the independent display system does not require a keyboard or cursor controller; one of the plurality of icons including said lightbox icon, wherein one of the lightbox buttons is selected by a radiologist to bring up the digitized medical image corresponding to a currently examined one of the film-based medical images.