A method for clip selection includes receiving through an interface to amedicalimaging device, a selection of a diagnostic procedure and a target portion ofamammalian body. Thereafter, the device acquires video clip imagery of thetargetportion and stores the video clip imagery in an image store. Each video clipof the videoclip imagery is then image processed to determine a view and a quality of eachvideo clipand a rule is retrieved from a rules base corresponding to the selecteddiagnosticprocedure and target portion. In this regard, the rule specifies a requisiteview andquality of the video clip imagery. Finally, the retrieved rule is applied tothe video clipimagery as a filter to produce a subset of video clip imagery satisfying thespecifiedrequisite view and quality and the subset of video clip imagery is stored inthe imagestore.
