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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
Paul Joseph Chang, Allison Park, PA (US);
Bradford V. Hebert, Piedmont, CA (US);
Benjamin J. McCurtain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A user interface for a medical informatics system, which permits a physician to work with digitized medical images in a manner that the physician is accustomed to working with traditional analog film, is disclosed. The user interface includes a through a patient browser view to provide the ability to select studies, which consist of medical images and series, for patients. After selecting the studies, the user, through a patient canvas view, may then organize the studies as well as the images/series within the studies, including resizing the studies and the images/series within a study. The user may also pan and zoom images to view portions of an image at various resolutions. Furthermore, the user of the user interface may analyze the image by selecting to view the image in detail in a large floating window.