Patent ID: 7065235

Claim:
A method of radiographic scoring of a radiographic image comprising the steps of: acquiring a digital image representation of an image to be subjected to radiographic scoring, applying the acquired image representation to a display device and generating a displayed image, determining and extracting at least one region of interest on the displayed image, retrieving for each said at least one extracted region of interest a corresponding region of interest in reference stage images from a database, each said reference stage image having an associated score number, displaying the extracted regions of interest from the displayed image and the corresponding reference regions of interest from said reference stage images in juxtaposition on the same display screen, selecting a displayed optimal region of interest within said reference regions of interest which most optimally matches with the extracted region of interest from said displayed image, associating with the region of interest from the displayed image a score number corresponding with the selected region of interest from the reference stage images, and combining score numbers associated with said regions of interest into an overall score number pertaining to said radiographic image.