US Patent 11462315 Medical scan co-registration and methods for use therewith

A medical scan viewing system is conFIG.d to: receive a first medical scan and a second medical scan from a medical picture archive system, the first medical scan associated with a unique patient ID and a first scan date and the second medical scan associated with the unique patient ID and a second scan date; identify locations of anatomical landmarks in the first medical scan; identifying corresponding locations of the anatomical landmarks in the second medical scan; co-register the first medical scan with the second medical scan based on the locations of the anatomical landmarks in the first medical scan with the corresponding locations of the anatomical landmarks in the second medical scan; and present for display, via an interactive user interface, the first medical scan with the second medical scan, wherein the first medical scan and the second medical scan are synchronously presented, based on the co-registering.