Method, system and computer readable medium for an intelligent search workstation for computer assisted interpretation of medical images

A method for intelligent search of a known database for interpretation of medical images, comprising:

• generating image data from images derived from patients;
• computing feature characteristics of said image data;
• comparing said feature characteristics to computer-extracted feature characteristics of images in a known image data set;
• and
• displaying similar lesions with or without computer analysis output based on said comparison results.

A method for computer-assisted interpretation of a medical image, comprising:

• obtaining digital image data representative of the medical image;
• processing the image data to extract at least one feature characterizing a candidate abnormality;
• searching a database of known image data corresponding to known images having said at least one feature and retrieving known image data having said at least one feature;
• comparing said extracted at least one feature with the at least one feature existing in the retrieved known image data to identify known retrieved images having said at least one feature similar to the extracted at least one feature;
• and
• displaying image data of a location of the medical image from which said extracted feature was extracted and known image data of a location in a retrieved known image having a similar feature.