Patent Document ID: 8538770
Application ID: 09919275

Base Claim:
1. A system to aid a user in a visual diagnostic process, comprising: a computer system; an image database, accessible by said computer system; a knowledge database, accessible by said computer system, cross-referenced to said image database, for the purpose of assisting in the diagnostic process, said knowledge database including a plurality of findings-diagnosis links representing relationships between findings and diagnoses; a user-interface attached to said computer system to solicit, from the user, a plurality of descriptive characteristics of a sample requiring diagnosis; a diagnostic engine operating in said computer system, responsive to said descriptive characteristics, wherein said characteristics of the sample are employed by said engine to automatically identify, using the findings-diagnosis links, a subset including a plurality of possible diagnoses that are consistent with the characteristics; and using the subset of diagnoses, automatically reorganizing an information space of said image database for concurrent presentation on said user-interface of a plurality of images representing the subset of possible diagnoses for user review via the user-interface.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said diagnostic engine operates dynamically, using the subset of possible diagnoses, to reorganize the information space in response to modification of at least one of the plurality of descriptive characteristics by the user.