APPEARANCE CONTROL FOR MEDICAL IMAGES

According to one embodiment, an ultrasound imaging system is configured to receive images from an ultrasound imaging device, and output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, a screen display including an image and a user control comprising a plurality of control positions. The system is further configured to receive a control input associated with a single selected position of the user control, and based on the single selected position, determine at least two altered image setting values associated with at least two image settings of the plurality of image settings. The system then generates an updated image using the at least two altered image setting values. Accordingly, a single, intuitive control can change multiple visual aspects of an ultrasound image, such changing the image from grayscale to color, and many contrast and/or brightness levels in between, in a single user action.