US 5,807,256 AGranted

Medical information processing system for supporting diagnosis

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

InventorsKatsuyuki Taguchi, Shinich Yamada, Takehiro Ema

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Abstract

A medical information processing system for supporting diagnosis, capable of displaying an original image and a minified image over the original image without being interfered to each other, capable of optimal man-power & time saving configurations and methods, capable of realizing an optimal classifying technique for doctor's interpretation and CAD-processed result, and capable of optimizing efficiency in forming accurate interpretation report by using PACS in a mass survey. The system includes: a detecting unit for detecting location of abnormality from a first medical image in accordance with a predetermined algorithm; an image forming unit for forming a second medical image in which a marker indicating the location of the abnormality is overlapped; and a display unit for displaying the first medical image and the second medical image in an optimally efficient way.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A medical information processing system for supporting a diagnosis, the system comprising:

a first diagnosis processing portion obtaining first diagnostic results relative to a computer-aided diagnosis of medical images of a portion of a patient's body;
a second diagnosis processing portion obtaining second diagnostic results from at least one doctor relative to a diagnosis performed by the at least one doctor relative to the portion of the patient's body;
a selection and display device displaying selected ones of the medical images of the portion of the patient's body related to obtained first diagnostic results;
a display detecting portion detecting that particular ones of the medical images relating to particular ones of the obtained first diagnostic results have been displayed and storing a first list indicating which particular ones of the first diagnostic results have had related medical images selected and displayed;
a comparison and classification portion for comparing the first diagnostic results and the second results and, when the first and second diagnostic results do not agree, for creating a second list including a listing of examination identification numbers corresponding to any of the first diagnostic results not on said first list;
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a control portion controlling the selection and display device so as to display the medical images associated with the first diagnostic results appearing on the second list for the at least one doctor's further interpretation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/775,893Filed 2 Jan 1997 · continuation
Priority: JP 5-0399961 Mar 1993
Granted: 15 Sep 1998
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06T 7/0012
Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection: biomedical image inspection
G06T 7/11
Segmentation; Edge detection: region-based segmentation
G16H 30/20
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
G16H 50/20
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…