Patent Document ID: 20030026503
Application ID: 10081135
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for providing an interface between a digitized mammogram and a user comprising: a processor having means for electronically communicating with: means for communicating with a user; a monitor for displaying image data in a predetermined format and in varying greyscale, the monitor having a predetermined illumination capability; and means for receiving digitized mammogram data corresponding to a film mammogram image, the digitized mammogram data having greyscale values corresponding to optical densities of the film mammogram image; and electronically implementable means resident in the processor comprising: means for transforming the digitized mammogram data into a plurality of varying-resolution forms, each form having different greyscale values; means for communicating with a monitor to display the plurality of forms, each form within a different window on the monitor, and each form having a predetermined illumination state corresponding to the greyscale values thereof; and means for receiving from the user communication means a control instruction for changing an illumination state in a displayed form and for implementing the control instruction upon the displayed form, thereby permitting the user to control the illumination state of each displayed form.