Case display apparatus, case displaying method, and storage medium

A case display apparatus, comprising:

• a display information generator that generates display information displayed on a display device;
• a user input obtainer that, when the display information includes a first tomographic image, receives an image movement instruction including identification information and a displacement amount, the identification information indicating a slice position shift or an image capture time shift;
• a slice position selector that, when the identification information specifies that the slice position shift is to be performed, determines a second tomographic image at a destination of the slice position shift from a first tomographic image set including the first tomographic image, based on a position movement amount corresponding to the displacement amount, the first tomographic image set being a first plurality of tomographic images;
• an image capture time selector that, when the identification information specifies that the image capture time shift is to be performed, selects a third tomographic image from a second tomographic image set, the second tomographic image set being a second plurality of tomographic images, a target person of the first tomographic image and target persons of the second tomographic image set being identical, an examination portion captured in the first tomographic image and examination portions captured in the second tomographic image set being identical, a modality for the first tomographic image and modalities for the second tomographic image set being identical, and image capture times of the first tomographic image set and image capture times of the second tomographic image set being different, an image capture time of the third tomographic image being shifted from the image capture time of the first tomographic image based on the time movement amount corresponding to the displacement amount;
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• a displaying image obtainer that reads out the second tomographic image or the third tomographic image from an image storage device, and that gives the read out tomographic image to the display information generator;
• wherein importance information is added to part of tomographic images stored in the image storage device to indicate that the part of the tomographic images are important images,
• and wherein when in a tomographic image set identical to the first tomographic image in terms of the target person, the examination portion, and the modality, there is a tomographic image added with the importance information between first tomographic image and the tomographic image determined by the image capture time selector, the displaying image obtainer reads out this tomographic image from the image storage device instead of the tomographic image determined by the image capture time selector.

A method of displaying case data with a computer, comprising:

• generating display information displayed on a display device;
• when the display information includes a first tomographic image, receiving an image movement instruction including identification information and a displacement amount, the identification information specifying a slice position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed;
• when the identification information specifies that the slice position shift is to be per formed, determining, based on the amount of the position shift corresponding to the displacement amount, a second tomographic image at a destination of the slice position shift from a first tomographic image set that is a first plurality of tomographic images including the first tomographic image;
• when the identification information specifies that the image capture time shift is to be performed, determining a third tomographic image from a second tomographic image set that is a second plurality of tomographic images that are identical to the first tomographic image in terms of a target person, an examination portion, and a modality but that are different from the first tomographic image set in terms of an image capture time, the image capture time of the third tomographic image being shifted from the image capture time of the first tomographic image based on the amount of the image capture time shift corresponding to the displacement amount;
• reading out the second tomographic image or the third tomographic image from an image storage device and newly generating display information including the read-out tomographic image;
• wherein importance information is added to part of tomographic images stored in the image storage device to indicate that the part of the tomographic images are important images,
• and wherein when in a tomographic image set identical to the first tomographic image in terms of the target person, the examination portion, and the modality, there is a tomographic image added with the importance information between first tomographic image and the determines second tomographic image or second tomographic image, this tomographic image added with the importance information is read out from the image storage device instead of the determined second tomographic image or third tomographic image.

A storage medium including a control program stored therein to control a device including a processor to execute a case displaying process including displaying case data,

• the storage medium being a computer-readable non-temporary storage medium, the case displaying process comprising:
• generating display information displayed on a display device;
• when the display information includes a first tomographic image, receiving an image movement instruction including identification information and a displacement amount, the identification information specifying a slice position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed;
• when the identification information specifies that the slice position shift is to be per formed, determining, based on the amount of the position shift corresponding to the displacement amount, a second tomographic image at a destination of the slice position shift from a first tomographic image set that is a first plurality of tomographic images including the first tomographic image;
• when the identification information specifies that the image capture time shift is to be performed, determining a third tomographic image from a second tomographic image set that is a second plurality of tomographic images that are identical to the first tomographic image in terms of a target person, an examination portion, and a modality but that are different from the first tomographic image set in terms of an image capture time, the image capture time of the third tomographic image being shifted from the image capture time of the first tomographic image based on the amount of the image capture time shift corresponding to the displacement amount;
• reading out the second tomographic image or the third tomographic image from an image storage device and newly generating display information including the read-out tomographic image;
• wherein importance information is added to part of tomographic images stored in the image storage device to indicate that the part of the tomographic images are important images,
• and wherein when in a tomographic image set identical to the first tomographic image in terms of the target person, the examination portion, and the modality, there is a tomographic image added with the importance information between first tomographic image and the determines second tomographic image or second tomographic image, this tomographic image added with the importance information is read out from the image storage device instead of the determined second tomographic image or third tomographic image.