Patent ID: 7606404

Claim:
A method for optimizing procedures in radiological diagnostics, comprising the steps of: displaying at least one acquired digital image that was obtained with at least one medical imaging modality; selecting and starting a selected procedure at said computer that is available to evaluate contents of said at least one acquired digital image to make a medical diagnosis from said at least one digital image; at said computer, implementing at least image processing steps that are specific to the selected procedure using at least one image processing program that manipulates said at least one acquired digital image using procedure data selected from the group consisting of predetermined data and newly-entered data that are entered via a user interface display that is specifically configured for said selected procedure, until an optimally evaluable resulting image is obtained by processing said at least one acquired digital image; in said computer using the optimally evaluable resulting image, generating a medical diagnostic finding via said computer and initializing, via said computer, storage of said optimally evaluable resulting image and data associated with said finding, as a procedure result; electronically storing said procedure result in a memory associated with said computer; in said computer, analyzing said procedure data and all steps used to obtain said optimally evaluable resulting image to obtain an analysis result; and dependent on said analysis result, storing all of said steps used to obtain said optimally evaluable resulting image, as a new standard procedure and making said new standard procedure available at said computer for use as said selected procedure for subsequently processing another acquired digital image.