Patent Document ID: 9460510
Application ID: 13853174
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of synchronously navigating images, comprising: (i) receiving, by a computer system, at least first and second medical images; (ii) generating, by the computer system, a non-linear mapping between the first and second medical images in response to addition, re-positioning or deletion of one or more anchor landmarks that anchor the non-linear mapping; (iii) receiving, by the computer system, a selection of a given location in the first medical image in response to a user's navigational operation; (iv) applying, by the computer system, the non-linear mapping to coordinates of only the given location, without deforming the second medical image, to determine coordinates of a target location in the second medical image that corresponds to the given location in the first medical image; (v) generating, by the computer system and based at least in part on the target location, an optimized deformation-free view of the second medical image; and repeating steps (iii), (iv) and (v) while the user performs navigational operations on the first medical image.