Patent ID: 7864995

Claim:
A tangible and non-transitory computer-accessible medium to organize anatomically related parts, the medium comprising: a workflow system operable to receive a medical image and at least one user input from an external source, the medical imaging comprising one of an X-Ray plane film radiography medical image, a computed tomography image, a magnetic resonance medical image, a nuclear medicine medical image, a positron emission tomography medical image, a single photon emission computed tomography medical image; associating structures with graphical objects and contoured anatomical regions; a first component providing containers to a plurality of graphical objects of related anatomical regions that yield structures from explicit or implicit structure creation in accordance with the user input, the first component yielding organized structures, the first component operably coupled to the workflow system; a second component receiving an outline of anatomical regions that yield the graphical objects and providing graphical object creation and contouring of anatomical regions from the medical image in accordance with the user input, the second component yielding graphical objects, the second component operably coupled to the workflow system; and a third component associating the organized structures with graphical objects and the contoured anatomical regions, the third component operably coupled to the first component and the second component.