1. A method of processing of images having an input volume and one or more reformatting planes, comprising: determining an intersection boundary between the input volume and the one or more reformatting planes; determining one or more scanlines to be processed based on the intersection boundary; selecting to traverse the one or more reformatting planes by scanlines by column order or by row order, the selection of column order or row order being determined based on an alignment between the volume and the one or more reformatting planes; and processing the input volume by a processor in accordance with the selected scanline traversal pattern to generate an output image on a display.