Patent ID: 7130457

Claim:
A system for displaying a graphical user interface for analyzing quantitative changes in physical parameters of lung nodules over time, the system comprising: a processor; a memory configured to store at least one first body image taken at a first known time point (t 1 ) and at least one second body image taken at a second known time point (t 2 ), at least one of the first body images and at least one of the second body images being taken from at least one three-dimensional image set along substantially a common plane; and a display configured to output the graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising: the first body image corresponding to the common plane taken at t 1 ; the second body image corresponding to the common plane taken at t 2 ; a region for displaying quantitative information for one or more lung nodules imaged at t 1 along the common plane and determined using the at least one first body image and quantitative information for one or more corresponding lung nodules imaged at t 2 along the common plane and determined using the at least one second body image, the quantitative information comprising information related to at least one three-dimensional parameter associated with the one or more corresponding lung nodular; and a region for displaying quantitative changes in at least one of the corresponding lung modules between the first and second time points, the quantitative changes including a rate of change in at least one three-dimensional parameter in at least one of the corresponding lung nodules between the first and second known time points computed automatically based on the first and second body images.