Generating views of medical images

A method of generating a view of a medical image, comprising

• receiving information relating to a suspected diagnosis of a patient;
• receiving a medical image of the patient;
• retrieving a set of generic viewing parameters corresponding to the suspected diagnosis, the generic viewing parameters including a geometric parameter based on one of (1) an image model, (2) a standard anatomical reference model and (3) a shape model, wherein the set of generic viewing parameters are independent of the patient and the medical image of the patient;
• transforming the retrieved generic viewing parameters into a set of image specific viewing parameters for viewing the medical image, wherein the image-specific viewing parameters vary across the image in dependence on local image content;
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• generating an ordered list of sets of image-specific viewing parameters;
• on a display device, providing respective views of the medical image in accordance with the set of image-specific viewing parameters in an order specified by the ordered list.

A system for recommending whether a proposed diagnosis is accurate, the system comprising:

• a database which provides for each of a plurality of proposed diagnoses at least one specific slice of a generic patient image model including an orientation and a location of the specific slice;
• a medical image storage which stores at least one diagnostic image of a patient being diagnosed;
• a computerized system which receives the proposed diagnoses generates an ordered list of slice views in order by a probability of occurrence or an urgency of the proposed diagnoses, accesses the database to retrieve the at least one specific slice of the generic patient image model, including the location and the orientation, and controls a view generator to generate at least one slice view of the diagnostic image of the patient stored in the medical image storage, wherein the at least one diagnostic image slice view corresponds to the at least one generic patient image model specific slice;
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• a display configured to display the generated corresponding slice views in an order specified by the ordered list.