Information processing system for medical image data, information processing method, information terminal, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A method for processing information by using an information processing system comprising a plurality of information processing apparatuses each configured to make an inference about medical image data and an information terminal, the method comprising:

• acquiring medical image data from a medical image capturing apparatus;
• acquiring incidental information on what each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses can infer;
• presenting at least one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses as a candidate to a user based on the incidental information acquired from each of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses and a first operation by the user;
• selecting one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses to infer from the medical image data based on a second operation of the user to select the one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses from among the candidate;
• causing an information terminal to transmit the medical image data to the selected information processing apparatus, and
• causing the selected information processing apparatus to make an inference about the transmitted medical image data and to transmit an inference result to the information terminal.

An information terminal to acquire medical image data from a medical image capturing apparatus, the information terminal comprising:

• at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform:
• acquiring, from each of a plurality of information processing apparatuses each configured to make an inference about the medical image data, incidental information on what the information processing apparatus can infer;
• presenting at least one of the plurality of information processing apparatuses as a candidate to a user based on the incidental information acquired from each of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses and a first operation by the user;
• selecting one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses to infer from the medical image data based on a second operation of the user to select the one of the plurality of the information processing apparatuses from among the candidate;
• transmitting the medical image data to the selected information processing apparatus;
• and receiving an inference result obtained by the selected information processing apparatus making an inference about the medical image data.