11. A method for facilitating interpretation of a medical image, comprising: identifying a first plurality of medical data sources meeting a predetermined selection criterion as being from published medical reference texts and medical teaching materials authored by an identified core set of expert authors and commonly recognized as credible and authoritative; identifying a second plurality of medical data sources not meeting said predetermined selection criterion; forming from said first and second pluralities of medical data sources a resource database comprising a collection of resource images previously analyzed by human interpreters and textual information associated therewith, wherein said resource database further comprises information categorizing each of the resource images into one of a first category and a second category according to the one of the first and second pluralities of medical data sources, respectively, with which its corresponding medical data source was identified; displaying the medical image to a user; receiving a graphical input from the user identifying a region of interest (ROI) in the medical image that is interesting to the user; performing a content-based image comparison of the ROI against said resource database, said content-based image comparison comprising identifying a subset of said resource images similar to said ROI with respect to a predetermined computed image feature set; and displaying to the user at least one of said identified subset of resource images and its associated textual information simultaneously with said ROI, and further displaying information identifying into which of the first and second categories the displayed resource image is categorized.
20. The method of claim 11 , further comprising displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) markers on said medical image, said CAD markers being generated by a CAD algorithm identifying anatomical abnormalities in the medical image based at least in part upon said predetermined computed image feature set, wherein said receiving the graphical input comprises one or more of (a) receiving a user selection of one of said CAD markers, (b) receiving a user selection of a point location, wherein said ROI comprises a predetermined pattern including said point location, and (c) receiving a user circumscription of the ROI, whereby either (b) or (c) may result in an identified ROI that does not include any of said CAD markers.