Patent ID: 7907759

Claim:
A physician interactive workstation, comprising: an interactive physician workstation; a display in communication with the workstation, the display configured to show a 3-D diagnostic image of a patient's heart illustrating substantially an entire population of voxels obtained from different CT or MRI slices, wherein voxel intensities are quantified and visually indicated in the 3-D image in color scale so that similar voxel intensities have similar color to visually emphasize the distribution of injured and/or dead cells, wherein the display is configured to display a plurality of voxel intensity histograms of a plurality of regions of interest in the heart, the voxel intensity histograms defining voxel data used to generate the 3-D image of the heart, the plurality of voxel intensity histograms being selectively viewable by a clinician, and wherein the display is configured to selectively present a 2-D compartmentalized model of the heart with a plurality of adjacent compartments in at least two of the following: apical, mid and basal short axis slices of the heart, wherein voxel data from the histograms are used to populate the compartments of the model with measures of voxel intensity to provide visual data to allow a clinician to identify cell injury, cell death, cardiac injury and/or predict a likelihood of a negative cardiac event.