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.