Patent ID: 7146031

Claim:
An automated method for displaying digitized mammographic images, comprising the steps of: receiving in a computer system a plurality of digitized mammographic images in a received orientation and order; determining by the computer system the received orientations and identities of the plurality of received digitized mammographic images by identifying marker images and chest wall locations on the digitized mammographic images; using in the computer system the determined orientations and identities of the received images to display the received digitized radiographic images in a predetermined orientation and order that is not necessarily the orientation and order in which the images were received; wherein said determining by the computer system the received orientations and identities comprises, for at least one of said digitized mammographic images, the steps of: identifying a location of the marker image in the digitized mammographic image; and using said identified location in conjunction with an established mammographic marker placement standard to determine the received orientation.