An integrated film and filmless image display system is provided comprising a film image display unit having a film viewer for displaying a plurality of film images, a computer system having a filmless image display unit for displaying a plurality of filmless images, and a controller for controlling display of either the film images or the filmless images, wherein either the plurality of film images or the plurality of filmless images are indexed relative to the other.

An automated system for organizing, presenting, and manipulating medical images includes a database in which the medical images are structured into groups, each group including one or more image series, each image series including an ordered sequence of images which illustrate incrementally registered aspects of an anatomical target. Image series are presented in their sequential order either in a monitor presentation format which displays each sequence in its entirety in a single monitor display container or which presents two or more image series, image-by-image, in adjacent presentation areas of a series display container. The system includes a plurality of monitors in which all monitors, save one, produce display containers for image series presentation. One monitor is reserved for displaying a working palette to which images of the image series displayed on the other monitors may be moved. The system activates a monitor in a plurality of monitors in response to movement of a cursor between monitors. An active monitor is indicated by presentation of a control panel. The system also provides heads-up presentation of control panel icons at a cursor location outside of the control panel by sequentially changing the shape of the cursor to the icon shapes for user selection.

A technique is provided for offering feedback, including feedback for patient care and for training purposes for medical professionals and human operators. The technique includes accessing data, such as image data, for evaluation by a human operator. The data is then analyzed via a computer-assisted data operating algorithm, and the analysis may further include analysis of supplemental data accessed from an integrated knowledge base. Based upon the analysis feedback is provided to the operator, such as for completing or complementing the evaluation, correcting analysis by the human operator, or otherwise informing the human operator of similarities or differences between the analyses.

An image position adjusting apparatus adjusts the position plurality of images such that the plurality of the images may overlap one upon another. An image display device reproduces the respective images from image signals, which represent the respective images, and displays the reproduced images. A transformation device transforms each of the images, which are displayed on the image display device, into a simple image. The simple image is represented by only the image signal components of the image signal representing each of the displayed images, which image signal components have signal values larger than a predetermined threshold value. A polygon display device displays an arbitrary polygon on each of the simple images. A shift device shifts the polygon displayed on each of the simple images. A deformation device deforms the polygon, which is displayed on one of the simple images, and deforms the polygons, which are displayed on the other simple images, so as to interlock with the deformation of the polygon, which is displayed on one of the simple images. A rotation device rotates the polygons, which are displayed on the other simple images.

A medical information processing system for supporting diagnostic interpretation, featuring a data storage unit for storing an interpretation image and interpretation reference images for which a doctor will refer to interpret the interpretation image. A data loading unit loads the interpretation reference images from the data storage unit into a workstation unit according to a predetermined priority order. The data loading unit loads the images into a workstation which is selected from the workstation unit according to workstation vs. interpretation examination modality information. A diagnostic information creation unit creates diagnostic information relative to the image by inputting the doctor's findings or computerizing with a computer unit. Positions of abnormalities and degrees of the abnormalities are determined, and positions in association with the images are calculated. A diagnostic information comparing unit compares the diagnostic information with each other and creates differences between the diagnostic information as time-sequential abnormality change data. A diagnostic information output unit outputs the diagnostic information or results of comparing the diagnostic information with each other and superimposes the contents of the time-sequential abnormality change data on the associated image. The diagnostic information output unit also outputs predetermined contents for an inconsistency of the diagnostic information for the doctor's findings with the diagnostic information for the results of computerizing and includes a plurality of displays and automatically determines relational positions in which the images are displayed on the displays according to a predetermined relational information.