Abstract: In one embodiment, an adaptive medical image registration procedure includes a motion estimation procedure involving estimating or determining an amount of patient or tissue motion along a set of axes; an evaluation procedure involving evaluating an estimated amount of motion relative to a correction threshold; and a correction procedure involving performing a two dimensional image resampling, a three dimensional image resampling, or possibly avoiding an image resampling based upon a relationship between an estimated amount of motion and the correction threshold. Axes considered by a motion estimation procedure may include an axis of lowest image resolution, and the correction threshold may have a value given by a fraction of a lowest image resolution.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an adaptive medical image registration procedure includes a motion estimation procedure involving estimating or determining an amount of patient or tissue motion along a set of axes; an evaluation procedure involving evaluating an estimated amount of motion relative to a correction threshold; and a correction procedure involving performing a two dimensional image resampling, a three dimensional image resampling, or possibly avoiding an image resampling based upon a relationship between an estimated amount of motion and the correction threshold. Axes considered by a motion estimation procedure may include an axis of lowest image resolution, and the correction threshold may have a value given by a fraction of a lowest image resolution.

Abstract: An apparatus distributes processed image data from a central location to remote terminals, for viewing by medical personnel for the purposes of diagnosis and determining a treatment regimen for a patient. The apparatus receives image data from imaging devices, and is programmed with rules or other parameters with respect to the manner in which that image data is to be processed and sorted. The apparatus applies the parameters to the appropriate received image data, and distributes the processed image data to one or more remotely coupled terminals. Because the image data is automatically pre-processed by the apparatus according to various parameters that are specific to certain medical personnel's preferences (or specific to other factors), the amount of repetitive user-required configuration and repetitive workstation processing is reduced—simple remote terminals with limited processing capability can receive highly customized image data.

Abstract: A user interface is used to view images, such as medical images. The images are organized according to slices, which may be spatially related to one another, and according to series having slices aligned with corresponding slices in other series. The series may be temporally related to each other. A user input device, such as a mouse, is provided. Clicking on a button of the mouse and dragging up/down results in display of slices within a particular series. Clicking on the button of the mouse and dragging left/right results in display of aligned slices from different series.