Abstract: A digital image processing system for enhancing the image quality and diagnostic capabilities of conventional medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems and, more particularly, to an echocardiography workstation (10) which provides speckle reduction (200), edge detection, color quantitation (306), automatic diagnostic features. a built-in Help system for echocardiography, automatic quantitative analysis of left ventricular function, tomographic perfusion display (36), 3-D analysis, and report generation for improved analysis of echocardiograms.