Computer-aided diagnosis system for medical use

A system for automatically analyzing a medical image, comprising:

• means for inputting a medical image of a plurality of medical images of different types and attribute data of the medical image, said attribute data denoting the type of the medical image;
• means for storing a plurality of computer-aided diagnosis algorithms which correspond respectively to a plurality of types of the medical images;
• means for selecting, based on the attribute data, an optimum computer-aided diagnosis algorithm suitable for the medical image input by said inputting means;
• means for analyzing the medical image using the optimum computer-aided diagnosis algorithm selected by said selecting means;
• and
• means for displaying an analysis result of said analyzing means.

A system for automatically analyzing a medical image, comprising:

• means for storing a plurality of medical images of different types and attribute data of the medical images, said attribute data denoting the type of the medical image;
• means for storing a plurality of computer-aided diagnosis algorithms which correspond respectively to a plurality of types of the medical images;
• means for selecting, based on the attribute data, optimum computer-aided diagnosis algorithms suitable for diagnosis of the medical images stored in said image and attribute data storing means;
• means for analyzing the medical images using computer-aided diagnosis algorithms which are selected by said selecting means;
• means for storing an analysis result of said analyzing means in association with the medical images, as the attribute data of the image;
• and
• means for selectively reading out a desired medical image and a corresponding analysis result and displaying the desired medical image and the corresponding analysis result.

A system for automatically analyzing a medical image, comprising:

• means for storing a plurality of medical images and attribute data of the medical images, said attribute data denoting whether or not the medical image has been viewed by an operator;
• means for selectively extracting one of first medical images which have been viewed by an operator and second medical images which have not been viewed by an operator based on the attribute data;
• means for analyzing one of the first medical images and the second medical images extracted by said extracting means using a computer-aided diagnosis algorithm;
• and
• means for displaying an analysis result of said analyzing means.

A system for automatically analyzing a medical image using a computer-aided diagnosis algorithm, comprising:

• means for storing a plurality of medical images and attribute data of the medical images, the attribute data including an item of data denoting whether or not the medical image has been analyzed using a computer-aided diagnosis algorithm, an item of data denoting whether or not the medical image has been viewed by an operator, and an item of data denoting a type of the medical image;
• means for storing a plurality of computer-aided diagnosis algorithms;
• means for analyzing medical images which are stored in said storing means, have not been analyzed using a computer-aided diagnosis algorithm, and have been viewed by an operator using an optimum computer-aided diagnosis algorithm selected based on the attribute data;
• means for storing an analysis result of said analyzing means in association with the medical images;
• and
• means for selectively reading out a desired medical image and a corresponding analysis result and displaying the desired medical image and the corresponding analysis result.