System and method for thresholding for x-ray technique optimization

A system for thresholding to optimize an X-ray technique, comprising:

• a medical imaging system, the medical imaging system including:
• a memory encoding processor-executable routines;
• and
• a processing system comprising one or more processors and configured to access the memory and to execute the processor-executable routines, wherein the processor-executable routines, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to:
• receive a prescription for a diagnostic X-ray scan of a subject with a medical imaging scanner, wherein diagnostic X-ray scan has a prescribed value for a target metric;
• determine a predicted value for the target metric for an altered prescription for the diagnostic X-ray scan based on alteration of the prescription by an automatic control exposure algorithm;
• receive an input of a threshold value in a graphical user interface, wherein the threshold value is an acceptable percent deviation between the predicted value and the prescribed value for the target metric;
• and
• determine whether the altered prescription for the diagnostic X-ray scan is sub-optimal based on a comparison of the threshold value to a percent deviation between the predicted value and the prescribed value for the target metric.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable code that when executed by a processing system comprising one or more processors, causes the processing system to:

• receive a prescription for a diagnostic X-ray scan of a subject with a medical imaging scanner, wherein diagnostic X-ray scan has a prescribed value for a target metric;
• determine a predicted value for the target metric for an altered prescription for the diagnostic X-ray scan based on alteration of the prescription by an automatic control exposure algorithm;
• receive an input of a threshold value in a graphical user interface, wherein the threshold value is an acceptable percent deviation between the predicted value and the prescribed value for the target metric;
• and
• determine whether the altered prescription for the diagnostic X-ray scan is sub-optimal based on a comparison of the threshold value to a percent deviation between the predicted value and the prescribed value for the target metric.