Patient worklist management in digital radiography review workstations

A radiology review workstation, comprising:

• a medical image display sequentially displaying to a radiologist a plurality of medical imaging cases annotated with CAD markers identifying anatomical abnormalities therein detected by CAD processing thereof;
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• a patient worklist user interface (i) receiving for each of said plurality of medical imaging cases a set of CAD-computed metrics derived from said CAD processing thereof, (ii) receiving at least one input from the radiologist identifying at least one CAD-computed metric according to which a case worklist identifying the medical imaging cases to be displayed on said medical image display is to be sorted, and (iii) sorting the case worklist according to the identified at least one CAD-computed metric;
• wherein said at least one CAD-computed metric according to which the case worklist is sorted comprises at least one image-based feature as computed by said CAD processing of each of said plurality of cases;
• wherein the medical image display sequentially displays the plurality of medical imaging cases according to an order of the sorted case worklist;
• and wherein said identified at least one CAD-computed metric includes an anatomical complexity metric, whereby said patient worklist is sorted according to said anatomical complexity metric.

A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting a plurality of medical imaging cases to a radiologist at a radiology review workstation, comprising:

• computer code for receiving, for each of said plurality of medical imaging cases, a set of CAD-computed metrics derived from an operation of a CAD processing algorithm thereon, said CAD processing algorithm detecting anatomical abnormalities in each of said plurality of medical imaging cases for presentation therewith at the radiology review workstation;
• computer code for receiving at least one input from the radiologist identifying at least one CAD-computed metric according to which a patient worklist identifying the plurality of medical imaging cases is to be sorted, wherein said identified at least one CAD-computed metric comprises at least one image-based feature as computed by said CAD processing algorithm for each of said plurality of medical imaging cases;
• computer code for sorting the patient worklist according to said identified at least one CAD-computed metric;
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• computer code for sequentially displaying to the radiologist the plurality of medical imaging cases according to their order of appearance in the sorted patient worklist;
• wherein said identified at least one CAD-computed metric includes an anatomical complexity metric, whereby said computer code for sorting the patient worklist comprises computer code for sorting the patient worklist according to said anatomical complexity metric.