This workflow automates the critical but time-consuming task of retrieving and comparing prior imaging studies, a bottleneck that consumes 20-30% of a radiologist's reading time. By orchestrating patient matching across disparate archives, performing temporal alignment, and running change-detection algorithms, it delivers a consolidated, annotated comparison view directly into the PACS worklist. The operational upside comes from eliminating manual search and mental registration, reducing cognitive load, and standardizing interval change reporting, which directly improves diagnostic throughput and longitudinal tracking accuracy for oncology, neurology, and chronic disease management.




