Method for operating a medical imaging apparatus, medical imaging apparatus, computer program and electronically readable storage medium

A medical imaging apparatus, comprising:

• an input device;
• an output device;
• and
• a control device including processing circuitry configured to cause the medical imaging apparatus to
• acquire a first image data set of a region of interest of a patient,
• automatically evaluate the first image data set using at least one evaluation algorithm yielding evaluation information regarding at least one type of finding, at least one of the at least one evaluation algorithm including a trained function trained by a machine learning algorithm, the evaluation information describing a presence or absence of at least one finding of a type in the first image data set, and the at least one finding requiring
• acquisition of a second image data set for further analysis, and
• at least one imaging parameter for the second image data set,
• automatically notify a user, via the output device, of the required acquisition of the second image data set in response to the evaluation information indicating the presence of the at least one finding, and
• acquire the second image data set in a same examination process, using the at least one imaging parameter of the evaluation information in response to confirmation of acquisition of the second image data set by the user.

A non-transitory electronically readable storage medium, storing computer program comprising instructions which, when the computer program is executed on a control device of a medical imaging apparatus, cause the control device to:

• acquire a first image data set of a region of interest of a patient;
• automatically evaluate the first image data set using at least one evaluation algorithm yielding evaluation information regarding at least one type of finding, at least one of the at least one evaluation algorithm including a trained function trained by a machine learning algorithm, the evaluation information describing a presence or absence of at least one finding of a type in the first image data set, and the at least one finding requiring
• acquisition of a second image data set for further analysis, and
• at least one imaging parameter for the second image data set;
• automatically notify a user, via an output device, of the required acquisition of the second image data set in response to the evaluation information indicating the presence of the at least one finding;
• and
• acquire the second image data set in a same examination process, using the at least one imaging parameter of the evaluation information in response to confirmation of acquisition of the second image data set by the user.