Displaying Grouped Medical Images for Review

A medical image management system comprising:

• a network communication interface to receive healthcare studies;
• a memory coupled to the network communication interface to store received healthcare studies;
• a display screen coupled to the memory to display the received healthcare studies;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the network communication interface, the memory, and the display screen and configured to:
• receive an image data set from a data source, the image data set including projection X-ray mammographic images for a healthcare study;
• determine an ungrouped thumbnail image for each projection X-ray mammographic image of the image data set, the ungrouped thumbnail images for display in a graphical user interface of a display device;
• group images of the image data set into a plurality of sets;
• determine a set-grouped thumbnail image for each set of grouped images, the set-grouped thumbnail images for display in the graphical user interface;
• generate a graphical user interface that includes displaying at least one of the set-grouped thumbnail images or the ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface;
• receive user input on a user interface element;
• and,
• in response to receiving user input on the user interface element:
• switch the graphical user interface from displaying set-grouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface to displaying ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface;
• or
• switch the graphical user interface from displaying ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface to displaying set-grouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereupon that when executed by a system having at least one processor, a memory, and a display screen therein, cause the system to perform a method comprising:

• receiving an image data set from a data source, the image data set including projection X-ray mammographic images for a healthcare study;
• determining an ungrouped thumbnail image for each projection X-ray mammographic image of the image data set, the ungrouped thumbnail images for display in a graphical user interface of a display device;
• grouping images of the image data set into a plurality of sets;
• determining a set-grouped thumbnail image for each set of grouped images, the set-grouped thumbnail images for display in the graphical user interface;
• generating a graphical user interface that includes displaying at least one of the set-grouped thumbnail images or the ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface;
• receiving user input on a user interface element;
• and,
• in response to receiving user input on the user interface element:
• switching the graphical user interface from displaying set-grouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface to displaying ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface;
• or
• switching the graphical user interface from displaying ungrouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface to displaying set-grouped thumbnail images in the graphical user interface.