System and method for synthesizing low-dimensional image data from high-dimensional image data using an object grid enhancement

A method for processing breast tissue image data, comprising:

• processing an image data set including a plurality of image slices comprising image data of a patient's breast tissue to identify two or more clinically significant high-dimensional breast tissue objects in the breast tissue and to determine a clinically significant object type for each of the two or more clinically significant high-dimensional breast tissue objects;
• generating a high-dimensional object grid depicting each of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects in the patient's breast tissue found across one or more respective image slices of the image data set;
• determining a confidence or probability of each of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects depicted in the high-dimensional object grid;
• generating a synthesized image comprising a lower-dimensional format version of each of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects depicted in the high-dimensional object grid based at least in part upon the confidence or probability of each of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects, wherein the confidence or probability is determined based at least in part on a weight assigned to each of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects, and wherein the weights assigned to the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects is based on the respective object type,
• where generating the synthesized image comprises:
• determining whether two of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects are likely to overlap in the displayed synthesized image;
• and
• if it is determined that the two of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects are likely to overlap in the synthesized image:
• determining a difference in assigned weight of each of the two of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects likely to overlap, and
• if the determined difference is lower than a threshold value,
• modifying one or more aspects of at least one of two of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects, and
• displaying both of the two of the two or more high-dimensional breast tissue objects likely to overlap in the synthesized image, wherein the modification pertains to emphasizing at least a portion of the high-dimensional breast tissue object assigned the higher weight relative to the high-dimensional object assigned the lower weight.