| abstract |
The invention provides a system, e.g. a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and a method for identifying the presence of relevant medical images, e.g. medical images ofthe same region of interest or anatomical feature(s) of the same patient, taken at a different time or by a different acquisition modality. The system ofthe invention notifies a user on the presence of any such relevant image, and is arranged for presenting such relevant images on a display. Two or more medical images may be displayed at the same time or one after the other, overlaid, by sliding a space or time axis, etc. The medical images are scaled and orientated so as to maximize the visual correlation between them, i.e. to make them exhibit the anatomy the most possible alike, so as to ease comparison between anatomical features without disturbing diagnostically relevant contrasts on the medical images. |