1. A system to aid a user in a visual diagnostic process, comprising: a computer system; an image database, accessible by said computer system; a knowledge database, accessible by said computer system, cross-referenced to said image database, for the purpose of assisting in the diagnostic process, said knowledge database including a plurality of findings-diagnosis links representing relationships between findings and diagnoses; a user-interface attached to said computer system to solicit, from the user, a plurality of descriptive characteristics of a sample requiring diagnosis; a diagnostic engine operating in said computer system, responsive to said descriptive characteristics, wherein said characteristics of the sample are employed by said engine to automatically identify, using the findings-diagnosis links, a subset including a plurality of possible diagnoses that are consistent with the characteristics; and using the subset of diagnoses, automatically reorganizing an information space of said image database for concurrent presentation on said user-interface of a plurality of images representing the subset of possible diagnoses for user review via the user-interface.