System and method for the graphical presentation of the content of radiologic image study reports

A method programmed in a computing environment for providing a graphical presentation in a single diagram of the contents of a report on radiological image examinations, the method comprising:

• obtaining a prose text report or a structured report of said radiological image studies, said prose text or structured report having content comprising:
• an identification of each type of said radiological image examination;
• a timestamp for when each of said radiological image examination was performed;
• analyzing said prose text report or said structured report;
• providing a second structured report from said prose text report wherein, the prose text report content are represented in said second structured report as sets of concepts, concept values and relationships;
• applying rules or inference capabilities to analyze the applicable one of said structured report and said second structured report;
• and
• presenting a graphical representation of the applicable one of said structured report and said second structured report.

A method programmed in a computing environment for providing a single graphical diagram to present the contents of a plurality of radiological image studies, the method comprising:

• obtaining a report of said radiological image studies, each of said image studies characterized by at least a time stamp, an image study type and findings provided by a radiologist during the process of analyzing the image that was the subject of said image study;
• utilizing an ontology of radiological domain knowledge to interpret said image studies and to generate one or more informational items for display;
• and
• providing in said graphical diagram, said one or more informational items for display.

A method programmed in a computing environment for providing a single graphical diagram to present clinical data content of a patient's records, the method comprising:

• obtaining a report of the patient's records, each of said clinical data characterized by at least a time stamp and identification of a clinical process provided by a pathologist or technologist;
• interpreting said patient's records to generate one or more informational items for display;
• said one or more informational items comprising the characteristics of said clinical process;
• and
• providing in the graphical diagram, at least one symbol to represent said one or more informational items and the characteristics of said clinical process.