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US 2017/0372132 A1Published application
Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshihiko Iwase, Hiroshi Imamura
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Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to analyze a target medical image, a unit configured to register information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and a modality used by each doctor, and a unit configured to, when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on information representing the aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of the specific lesion, and, when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on the modality.
Claims16
1-8. (canceled)
A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:
- obtain lesion information relating to a medical image of an object of a plurality of medical images;
- acquire additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- acquire time schedules of one or more doctors of a plurality of doctors;
- determine whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information related to the medical image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assign the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determine whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assign the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assign the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time;
- and
- output, to a display unit, information corresponding to the doctor to which the medical image is assigned, together with the information corresponding to the assigned medical image.
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A medical image processing method comprising:
- obtaining, by a processor, lesion information relating to a medical image of a plurality of medical images;
- acquiring additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- acquiring time schedules of one or more doctors of a plurality of doctors;
- determining whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information related to the medical image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time;
- and
- outputting, to a display unit, information corresponding to the doctor to which the medical image is assigned, together with information corresponding to the assigned medical image.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to execute a medical image processing method, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a processor, lesion information relating to a medical image of a plurality of medical images;
- acquiring additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- acquiring time schedules of one or more doctors of a plurality of doctors;
- determining whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information related to the medical image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time;
- and
- outputting, to a display unit, information corresponding to the doctor to which the medical image is assigned, together with information corresponding to the assigned medical image.
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A medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the medical image processing apparatus to:
- analyze a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment;
- output an analysis result;
- acquire information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as an assignment target;
- acquire additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- register information representing a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus;
- acquire time schedules of one or more doctors of the plurality of doctors;
- determining whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information related to the medical image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assign a doctor of the plurality of doctors to the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion, the doctor of the plurality of doctors being who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- and
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time.
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A medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the medical image processing apparatus to:
- analyze a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment;
- output an analysis result;
- acquire information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as an assignment target;
- acquire additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- register information representing a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus;
- acquire time schedules of one or more doctors of the plurality of doctors;
- determine whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information related to the medical image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assign a doctor of the plurality of doctors to the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents a specialty of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus, the doctor of the plurality of doctors being who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- and
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time.
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A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:
- obtain lesion information relating to a medical image of a plurality of medical images;
- acquire additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- acquire time schedules of one or more doctors of a plurality of doctors;
- determine whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the a information of the image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assign the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors, the doctor being assigned for interpreting the medical image and being who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time;
- and
- output, to an external apparatus, information corresponding to the doctor to which the medical image is assigned, together with information corresponding to the assigned medical image.
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A medical image processing method comprising:
- obtaining, by a processor, lesion information relating to a medical image of a plurality of medical images;
- acquiring additional information related to the medical image including a degree of urgency and an interpretation deadline;
- acquiring time schedules of one or more doctors of a plurality of doctors;
- determining whether a degree of urgency is set as part of the additional information of the image;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency is set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors, the doctor being assigned for interpreting the medical image and being who is currently performing interpretation;
- in a case where a determination is made that the degree of urgency has not been set, determining whether an interpretation deadline has been set;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within the interpretation deadline;
- in a case where a determination is made that the interpretation deadline has not been set, assigning the medical image to a doctor of the plurality of doctors whose acquired time schedule is set within a set time;
- and
- outputting, to an external apparatus, information corresponding to the doctor to which the medical image is assigned, together with information corresponding to the assigned medical image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.