Patent ID: 7945083

Claim:
A method for supporting diagnostic workflow from a medical imaging apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a set of at least two images of a patient, wherein each of the at least two images is of the same anatomical feature of the patient but taken at different time periods; b) displaying, on a display, the set of images according to a user-specified image display layout selected from a plurality of image display layouts, and displaying each of the images of said set of images by electronically scanning the displayed images with a magnified view to provide a scanned view by the method comprising the steps of: (i) defining a magnification outline window that is smaller than the diagnostic image; (ii) positioning the magnification outline window over a portion of the diagnostic image to define a magnified image portion therein; (iii) displaying, on the display, the magnified image portion in a magnification display window; and (iv) changing the magnified image portion within the magnification display window with a repeated process of: changing the relative position of the magnification outline window according to a scan pattern, thereby redefining the magnified image portion and forming a redefined magnified image portion therein; and displaying the redefined magnified image portion in the magnification display window; c) associating one or more markers with each of the at least two images, each marker identifying a region of interest in the displayed image of each of the at least two images; d) generating a list of regions of interest having an entry for each marker associated in step c); and e) assigning a classification to each entry in the list according to possible health risk.