A navigation tool that provides a side-by-side display of two temporally
related medical images of the same region of a patient. A plurality of
lines extend between the images, at least a first line beginning at a
feature at a first location in a first image and ending at a
corresponding feature at a corresponding location in the second image and
at least a second line extending from a feature found at a second
location in one of the images toward a corresponding second location in
the other image and indicating a feature found in one image but not the
other. Preferably, the navigational tool also includes a scroll bar
alongside the display of medical images. On the scroll bar are a series
of markers, each marker corresponding to one of the plurality of lines
that extend between the images and preferably being aligned with that
line.