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1. A method for operating a computer to process colonography image data, including:
receiving colonography image data of a patient from a medical imaging device; processing the colonography image data by operating the computer to identify a centerline of the colon; and generating a graphical user interface by operating the computer, wherein the graphical user interface includes:
a field of view control; anda rendering of the patient's colon and a colon image location control; receiving, by the computer, operator input field of view information representative of a desired field of view in response to an operator's actuation of the field of view control; receiving, by the computer, operator input colon image location information representative of a plurality of selected sequential locations along the colon in response to the operator's actuation of the colon image location control; and generating, by the computer, a marker on the rendering of the patient's colon in the graphical user interface corresponding to the colon locations selected by the operator's actuation of the colon image location control; and generating a series of oblique image data sets representative of two-dimensional images of the colon at the sequential locations represented by the operator input colon image location information and having a field of view size determined by the operator input field of view information using the computer, wherein the computer uses the identified centerline to cause each two-dimensional image to be generally centered on the centerline and to present a field of view generally perpendicular to the centerline, and the computer causes the data sets to represent the images oriented with the bottom of the colon in a down direction with respect to gravity. |
