Patent ID: 6839455

Claim:
A method for communicating a radiologist's or skilled interpreter's findings directly on diagnostic images comprising: viewing more than one diagnostic image of a region of an object that is generated by a diagnostic medical imaging machine and verifying via a radiologist's or skilled interpreter's findings if there is a detectable pathology depicted in any of the diagnostic images; reviewing each diagnostic image having a detectable pathology; selecting as a result of said reviewing step the diagnostic image that best depicts the detected pathology; receiving an interpreter's request to annotate the diagnostic image that was selected; annotating the diagnostic image that was selected by delineating the detected pathology via inserting indicia on said image, based upon the radiologist's or skilled interpreter's findings whereby the indicia includes reference designations for immediately locating the pathology and wording to identify the type of pathology; and generating an annotated diagnostic image highlighting the detected pathology via said indicia thereon.