CAD-based navigation of views of medical image data stacks or volumes

An interactive visualization system for rendering images of respective patients from a multi-dimensional medical image data set, comprising:

• a display circuit with a graphic user interface (GUI) configured to allow a user to navigate between views generated from at least one medical image data set stack or volume based on positions identified by CAD (Computer Aided Detection) findings of suspected abnormalities,
• wherein the display circuit is configured to generate vicinity CAD marks directly on or in a current view of an anatomical visualization to visually mark a location of a respective suspected abnormality that is not shown in the current view of the anatomical visualization of the tissue, wherein the vicinity CAD marks are configured to appear in a plurality of different views of the tissue with a respective vicinity CAD mark having a different visual appearance in the different views based on proximity of the associated abnormality to a current view.

A signal processing circuit for generating views from respective patient multidimensional imaging data sets, wherein the circuit is configured to communicate with a graphical user interface associated with a client workstation to accept user input to interact with an image data set to generate desired views of the image data, and wherein the circuit is configured to navigate to display different views of breast tissue using a tomosynthesis stack of patient image data based on allowing a user to select at least one vicinity mark associated with a CAD identified suspected abnormality shown in a current view of breast tissue where the suspected abnormality is not in the current view, whereby a user can navigate to the suspected abnormality by selecting the vicinity mark in the current view.

A computer program product for providing physician interactive access to patient medical data for rendering diagnostic medical images, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to provide a user-selectable at least one vicinity mark associated with a CAD identified suspected abnormality in a current view of breast tissue where the suspected abnormality associated with the vicinity mark is not in the current view, whereby a user can navigate to the suspected abnormality by selecting the vicinity mark in the current view.