Patent ID: 7986821

Claim:
A process for selecting a protocol to provide coordinated view and characterization of an anatomical region in a nondestructive imaging system, the process comprising: receiving a body of data to generate relevant images for the anatomical region; selecting an anatomically specific protocol from a group of anatomically specific protocols, each anatomically specific protocol of the group being structured to provide multiple coordinated views of a particularized anatomical region and to facilitate automated characterization of an aspect of the anatomical region; opting for at least one of a plurality of viewing modalities for review of images associated with the selected anatomically specific protocol; and displaying the images in conformance with the at least one viewing modality, the displayed view of each of the images being in a panel, the panel including a series of cross-sections showing a structure of interest at different positions along the length of the structure, and views, a first view being a lumen view, the lumen view being a two-dimensional rendering of three-dimensional data of the structure of interest and treated to reduce the central area of the structure as though the structure was a one-dimensional structure, a second view representing a 3D VR rendering of the structure being characterized; and a third view being a curved view, the curved view being an image corresponding approximately to the anatomical region being laid flat on a planar surface wherein two-dimensional curvature is still present.