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Method and computerized system for automatically processing studies acquired by an imaging examination system

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsGeorg Görtler, Rainer Kuth

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Abstract

In a method and system for automatically processing studies of imaging examination systems, each of the studies is given a priority code. Dependent on its priority code, the study is either processed immediately on a first computer allocated to the appertaining imaging examination system or the study is first intermediately stored in a memory device for a later processing, and an identifier allocated to the study is stored in a processing job list. At later points in time, the studies whose identifiers are stored in the processing job list are processed according to a predefined sequence. The first computer has further computers allocated to it for this purpose. The availability of the allocated, further computers is then checked and, insofar as one of the allocated computers is available for a processing of the study, an intermediately stored study is communicated to the appertaining, allocated computer for processing.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for automatically processing studies acquired by an imaging examination system having a first computer connected via a network to a plurality of further computers, said method comprising the steps of:

for each study in a plurality of studies, comprising study data, acquired by said imaging examination system, assigning a priority code indicating a relative priority for processing that study;
dependent on said priority code, either immediately processing said study on said first computer by automatically diagnostically analyzing the study data thereof in said first computer to produce a medical finding, or intermediately storing the study data of said study in a memory device for later processing of the study data and allocating respective identifiers, in a processing job list, to all studies stored in said memory and, at respective later points in time, processing the respective study data of the studies stored in the memory in said processing job list according to a predetermined sequence;
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for processing the respective study data of the studies stored in said memory at said respective later points in time, checking respective availabilities of said further computers for processing one of said studies according to said processing job list, and communicating one of said studies according to said processing job list to one of said further computers having availability and automatically diagnostically analyzing the study data thereof in said one of said other computers having availability to produce a medical finding.

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A computerized system for automatically processing studies acquired by an imaging examination system, said computerized system comprising:

a first computer connected to an imaging examination system that acquires a plurality of studies, each of said studies comprising study data;
a priority allocation module configured to allocate respective priority codes to said studies according to a relative processing priority;
a plurality of other computers in communication with said first computer, each of said first computer and said plurality of other computers comprising a processor configured to automatically process said studies by automatically diagnostically analyzing the study data thereof to produce a medical finding;
a memory accessible by said first computer and said other computers;
dependent on the priority code allocated to a study, either said first computer automatically analyzing the study data of that study or intermediately storing that study in said memory allocated to an identifier in a processing job list for all studies stored in said memory;
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a module configured to check respective availabilities of said other computers and to transmit one of said studies from said memory according to said processing job list to one of said other computers dependent on the availability of said one of said other computers, for processing the study data thereof in said one of said other computes to produce a medical finding.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/615,715Filed 9 Jul 2003
Priority: DE 102 30 8789 Jul 2002
Published: US 2004/0083257 A129 Apr 2004
Granted: 28 Oct 2008
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Classification4 codes

G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
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 40/20
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or…:…
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the