The present disclosure provides methods for colorizing and/or standardizing a medical image, comprising, for example, the steps of (i) receiving, in an image processing unit, digital image data obtained by an image capture device, wherein the digital image data includes a medical image (ii) analyzing the data with the image processing unit to identify a region of interest (iii) segmenting said region of interest (iv) obtaining a measure of the pixel intensities in the segmented region of interest (v) selecting an optimized color spectrum from a plurality of color spectra using the result of the measure of the pixel intensities in the segmented region of interest (vi) colorizing the digital image data by mapping the selected color spectrum to the region of interest and (vii) displaying the colorized medical image.
