A review workstation for facilitating interpretation of a medical image by
a user is described. The review workstation comprises a display device
displaying the medical image to the user, and an input device receiving a
graphical identification of a region of interest (ROI) in the medical
image that is interesting to the user. Responsive to the identification
of the ROI, a content-based image comparison is performed between the ROI
and a resource database, the resource database comprising a collection of
resource images previously analyzed by human interpreters and textual
information associated with those previous analyses. The content-based
image comparison comprises identifying a subset of the resource images
similar to the ROI with respect to a preselected set of computed
features. The display device subsequently displays to the user at least
one of the identified subset of resource images and its associated
textual information simultaneously with the ROI.