Patent ID: 8194947

Claim:
A method for facilitating analysis of one or more mammography images on a review workstation, the review workstation including at least one processor, a user input device, and a display device, the method being implemented by the review workstation, the method comprising the steps of: displaying on the display device a first mammography image and a second mammography image of a human breast for viewing by a user of the review workstation, the second mammography image being a different mammographic view of the breast than the first mammography image; receiving from the user, by the user input device, an input that identifies at least one point of interest in the first mammography image; determining a distance between the at least one point of interest and a location of a nipple of the breast in the first mammography image; calculating a locus of points in the second mammography image of the breast, the locus of points representing potential locations in the second mammography image that correspond to the at least one point of interest in the first mammography image, the calculation being based at least in part on the distance between the at least one point of interest and the nipple location in the first mammography image; highlighting the locus of points on the display of the second mammography image so as to facilitate a determination by the user of one or more locations in the second mammography image corresponding to the at least one point of interest in the first mammography image, wherein the locus of points on the display of the second mammography image is in a shape of an arc having a center at a location of the nipple of the breast in the second mammography image; and determining, in the second mammography image, a modified distance between the nipple and the locus of points highlighted on the display of the second mammography image, the modified distance being determined based at least in part on respective compressions associated with respective first and second mammography images.