A method, system and computer readable medium for an intelligent search display
into which an automated computerized image analysis has been incorporated. Upon
viewing an unknown mammographic case, the display shows both the computer classification
output as well as images of lesions with known diagnoses (e.g., malignant vs. benign)
and similar computer-extracted features. The similarity index used in the search
can be chosen by the radiologist to be based on a single feature, multiple features,
or on the computer estimate of the likelihood of malignancy. Specifically the system
includes the calculation of features of images in a known database, calculation
of features of an unknown case, calculation of a similarity index, display of the
known cases along the probability distribution curves at which the unknown case
exists. Techniques include novel developments and implementations of computer-extracted
features for similarity calculation and novel methods for the display of the unknown
case amongst known cases with and without the computer-determined diagnoses.
