Using image references in radiology reports to support report-to-image navigation
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsThusitha Dananjaya De Silva MABOTUWANA, Yuechen Qian
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Abstract
A system, method and computer readable storage medium for retrieving a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images of a patient from a memory, determining text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report, determining image references in each text structure of the narrative report, extracting image references from text structures classified as including an image reference and determining a study to which an extracted image reference corresponds.
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A method for medical report-to-image navigation, comprising:
- retrieving a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images of a patient from a memory;
- determining text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report;
- determining image references in each text structure of the narrative report;
- extracting image references from text structures classified as including an image reference;
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- determining a study to which an extracted image reference corresponds.
A system for medical report-to-image navigation, comprising:
- a memory including a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images for a patient;
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- a processor retrieving the narrative report from the memory, determining text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report, determining measurement and date values, extracting image references from text structures, and determining a study to which an extracted image reference corresponds.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions executable by a processor, the set of instructions operable to:
- retrieve a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images of a patient from a memory;
- determine text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report;
- determine image references in each text structure of the narrative report;
- analyze the text structures to identify and mark measurement and date values;
- extract image references from marked text structures;
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- determine a study to which an extracted image reference corresponds.
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