Patent ID: 7787672

Claim:
A method of displaying medical data, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of medical images of a first medical examination; receiving a plurality of medical images of a second medical examination; receiving at least one user-defined matching rule, at least one of the user-defined matching rules identifying selection criteria for matching the medical images of the first and second medical examinations; selecting medical images that satisfy the selection criteria of the user-defined rules, thereby matching medical images of the first medical examination with medical images of the second medical examination according to the user-defined matching rules; receiving a plurality of user-defined display rules, at least one of user-defined display rules identifying one or more display preference with respect to selected medical images; and displaying the selected medical images according to the one or more identified display preference, thereby allowing matched medical images to be visually displayed in a manner that is suitable to the user's preferences, wherein at least some of the method is performed by a computing system comprising one or more computing device.