Patent ID: 8238999

Claim:
A method for displaying at least one medical finding to survey said at least one medical finding at a time subsequent to making said at least one medical finding, comprising the steps of: obtaining image data from a patient currently undergoing an examination, and from said image data, generating an anatomical image showing at least one body part of the patient currently undergoing the examination; displaying said anatomical image obtained from and showing at least one body part of the patient currently undergoing the examination on a display medium in a body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination; generating a slice image that is not said anatomical image, of a section through said at least one body part from which a medical finding is discernible for the patient that currently undergoing the examination that is associated with a location in the body of the patient currently undergoing the examination, and manually electronically interacting with the body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination at said display medium to electronically mark, based on said slice image, any, freely selectable point in said body view that localizes the medical finding in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination; in a database, storing at least one data set representing said slice image associated with the medical finding and, in said database, linking said data set with an identification of said point marked in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination that localizes the medical finding in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination; and at a point in time after storage of said medical finding in said database, selectively retrieving said medical finding from said data base by displaying said body view with said anatomical image therein on a survey medium and designating a location in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination on said survey display medium corresponding to the location in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination of the medical finding to be retrieved, and by matching the marked location in said body view of the patient currently undergoing the examination on said survey display medium with the localization of said medical finding linked to the medical finding in the database, automatically retrieving the slice image in which the medical finding is discernible from the database and displaying the slice image at said survey display medium.