User interface for efficiently displaying relevant oct imaging data

Abstract

The present invention is an OCT imaging system user interface for efficiently providing relevant image displays to the user. These displays are used during image acquisition to align patients and verify acquisition image quality. During image analysis, these displays indicate positional relationships between displayed data images, automatically display suspicious analysis, automatically display diagnostic data, simultaneously display similar data from multiple visits, improve access to archived data, and provide other improvements for efficient data presentation of relevant information.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A method for propagating modifications to the segmentation of optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume data comprising:
 a. acquiring OCT volume data;   b. segmenting the data to identify a surface within the OCT volume;   c. displaying a first slice of the OCT volume data which includes at least a portion of the surface;   d. accepting user modifications of the surface at one or more points with respect to the displayed first slice; and   e. automatically modifying the segmentation over a propagation zone containing additional portions of the volume data based on the user modification to the first slice.