Patent ID: 8705823

Claim:
A computer software product for enabling mapping and recording of breast examination results, the computer software product having computer readable program code that is stored on a non-transitory memory medium, the computer readable program code being capable of being accessed from the non-transitory memory medium by a processing device, the accessed program code adapted to be executed by the processing device to perform a method comprising: enabling visible characterization of found lesions in a digital image of a woman's breasts, the visible characterization indicating breast lesion information including at least one of: lesion location, lesion consistency, lesion smoothness, lesion shape; determining a breast coordinate system for each breast, the breast coordinate system for each breast having a respective coordinate system origin; mapping the location of each found lesion into a respective breast coordinate system so as to provide coordinates of each found lesion; enabling digital recording of the coordinates of each found lesion along with other breast lesion information; and normalizing the digital image using the breast coordinate system so as to provide a normalized digital image, wherein normalizing the digital image using the breast coordinate system includes: rotating the digital image so as to horizontally align the tops of the two breasts; angularly distorting the digital image by extending the shorter breast so as to horizontally align the bottoms of the two breasts, thereby making the two breasts appear to be of identical length; expanding digital image width to fit the image of the two breasts to a pre-determined width; expanding digital image height to fit the image of the two breasts to a pre-determined height; and equalizing width of each of the two breasts within the digital image of the two breasts.