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US 7,606,405 B2Granted
Dynamic tumor diagnostic and treatment system
AssigneeImQuant, Inc.
InventorsTimothy E. Sawyer, Thomas Edwin Payne
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Abstract
A workstation imports medical images that depict a tumor and provides tools that enable a physician to see the results of prior therapies, plan future therapies, predict the outcome of future therapies and control future therapies. The workstation processes the imported images to produce isonumeric images of the tumor that can be analyzed by an expert system that provides diagnostic and outcome information as well as suggestions for further testing and therapy.
Claims12
A tumor analysis system which comprises:
- means for importing an image of a tumor;
- means for producing from the imported image an isonumeric image that depicts a contour indicative of locations in the imported image having a selected threshold value of a tumor parameter;
- a case study storage for storing isonumeric images;
- means for calculating changes in the tumor depicted in the imported image by comparing the isonumeric image produced from the imported image with previously produced isonumeric images stored in the case study storage and storing the changes in the case study storage;
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- an expert system for analyzing the tumor using information stored in the case study storage.
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A tumor analysis system which comprises:
- means for importing an image of a tumor;
- means for calculating from this image values of parameters that measure the tumor;
- a case study storage for storing the calculated parameters;
- means for calculating changes that have occurred in tumor parameters based on parameters previously stored in the case study storage;
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- an expert system for producing a target contour for further treatment of the tumor based on information in the case study storage.
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A method for analyzing a pathology, the steps comprising:
- a) importing an image of the pathology;
- b) producing an isonumeric image of the imported image that depicts a contour indicative of locations in the imported image having a selected threshold value of a pathology parameter;
- c) storing the isonumeric image in a case study storage;
- d) calculating parameters related to the pathology from the stored isonumeric image;
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- e) analyzing the pathology with an expert system that examines parameters stored in the case study storage using rules stored in a rules knowledge base.
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