Methods and systems for automatically determining image characteristics serving as a basis for a diagnosis associated with an image study type

A system of automatically determining image characteristics used to diagnosis a patient, the image characteristics associated with an image study type, wherein the image study type specifies an imaging procedure used to generate images, the system comprising:

• a server including an electronic processor and an interface for communicating with at least one data source, the electronic processor configured to
• receive an image study from the at least one data source over the interface, the image study being of the image study type and including a plurality of images,
• determine an image characteristic for each of the plurality of images by at least one of a group consisting of determining whether each of the plurality of images includes an annotation and determining whether each of the plurality of images was displayed to a diagnosing physician rendering the diagnosis during a reading session of the diagnosing physician,
• determine whether each of the plurality of images was used in diagnosing a patient,
• create a data structure and store the image characteristic for each of the plurality of images and an indicator of whether each of the plurality of images was used in diagnosing a patient in the data structure, and
• modify a newly received image study of the same image study type as the first image study based upon the data structure by at least one of a group consisting of removing at least one image from the newly received image study that does not contain an image characteristic stored in the data structure and prioritizing images in the newly received image study for review.