Patent ID: 8384729

Claim:
A multi-modality medical image display system, comprising: a storage device configured to store a combination of different image attributes, each indicating an attribute of an image, in association with a display layout including respective display sizes of each image attribute of the image attributes, the display sizes of the display layout controlling how the images of the combination will be displayed on a same image plane; a client viewer having at least one of a first display frame and a second display frame; an input device configured to request a display of a plurality of medical images; a combination determining unit configured to determine, if the plurality of medical images have different image attributes, a determined combination of the different image attributes, based on incidental information that is assigned to the requested plurality of medical images; a searching unit configured to compare the determined combination with the stored combination and, based on the comparison, to search the storage device and obtain therefrom one of a plurality of display layouts stored in the storage device that corresponds with the determined combination; a medical-image display information generating unit configured to generate medical-image display information by arranging the requested plurality of medical images in accordance with the one of the plurality of display layouts obtained by the searching unit; and a display control unit configured to control display of the medical-image display information.