Automated selection, arrangement, and processing of key images

A method of automatically determining a key image for display to a user as part of analyzing an image study generated as part of a medical imaging procedure, the method comprising:

• automatically determining, with an electronic processor, a first key image within a plurality of images included in a first image study;
• automatically determining, with the electronic processor, by executing one or more rules associated with one or more of the first key image, a user, a type of the first image study, a modality generating the first image study, an anatomy, a location of the modality, and patient demographics, at least one second key image included in at least one second image study included in a plurality of image studies stored in a memory;
• automatically labeling with the electronic processor, the first key image from the first image study based on a position of the first key image within a montage template,
• automatically labeling with the electronic processor, the second key image from the second image study based on a position of the second key image within the montage template, and
• displaying, with the electronic processor via a display device, the second key image with the first key image within the montage template to aid a user in study of the first image study,
• wherein the rules are generated, at least in part, using machine learning.

A non-transitory computer medium including instructions that, when executed as a set of instructions by an electronic processor perform a set of operations comprising:

• automatically determine, with the electronic processor, a first key image within a plurality of images included in a first image study;
• automatically determine, with the electronic processor, by executing one or more rules associated with one or more of the first key image, a user, a type of the first image study, a modality generating the first image study, an anatomy, a location of the modality, and patient demographics, at least one second key image included in at least one second image study included in a plurality of image studies stored in a memory, the one or more rules generated, at least in part, using machine learning;
• automatically label the first key image from the first image study based on a position of the first key image within a montage template,
• automatically label the second key image from the second image study based on a position of the second key image within the montage template, and
• displaying, via a display device, the second key image with the first key image to aid a user in study of the first image study.