Medical image data analysis and visualization

A method of analysis for medical image data, the method comprising:

• receiving an image of breast tissue;
• identifying at least one region of interest (ROI) in the image based on one or more tissue characteristics associated with ROI;
• defining a query image as a subset of the image of breast tissue including the ROI;
• retrieving a hierarchy of lesion data including a plurality of images of breast tissue, the hierarchy being formed based on one or more relationships among the plurality of images;
• positioning the query image within the hierarchy of lesion data based on the one or more tissue characteristics;
• determining a position of the query image within the hierarchy of the lesion database;
• identifying one or more neighbor images of the query image from among the plurality of images based on the position;
• retrieving statistics associated with the one or more neighbor images;
• generating analytics associated with the query image based on the statistics;
• generating a graphic depicting the analytics;
• and
• displaying the graphic.