Patent ID: 7155043

Claim:
A user interface for a medical image comprising: a memory for storing a plurality of data sets, each data set corresponding to an image of a location within a medical body of interest; a plurality of data points within each image, each data point corresponding to a measured parameter collected from the medical body of interest; a visual display having the image thereon, the image being composed of a visual representation of the respective data points for that image; a color scale variation on the visual display of the image configured to a first color scale variation of those data points in the image that have been analyzed and determined to have a first common characteristic and configured to provide a second color scale variation of those data points in the image that have been analyzed and determined to have a second common characteristic; and an image analysis indicator on each of the plurality of data sets that contain at least one data point determined to have either the first or second common characteristic, the image analysis indicator showing the color scale variation corresponding to the different characteristics of the data.