Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying medical studies. A system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a reference medical study, of a patient, having a reference modality identifier and a reference procedure type in metadata of the reference medical study; access additional medical studies of the patient, each additional medical study having a modality identifier, a procedure type, and a study time in metadata of additional medical studies; apply a set of rules to additional medical studies to determine a relevancy level for each additional medical studies from a set of relevancy levels; generate and display a GUI having a patient-centric timeline including a node for each additional medical study, the node positioned along a first dimension of the timeline based on the study time of the additional medical study and positioned along a second dimension of the timeline based on the relevancy level of the additional medical study.