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US 8,412,541 B2Granted
Method and system for intelligent qualitative and quantitative analysis for medical diagnosis
AssigneeEdda Technology, Inc.
InventorsJianzhong Qian, Guo-Qing Wei, Li Fan
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Abstract
An Intelligent Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (IQQA) system and method is disclosed that allows a user to specify certain identifying information used to search and obtain medically-related information from different sources. The medically-related information may be of different types and may be dynamically fused, when needed, to generate matrices of diagnostic information. Medical decisions such as a diagnostic decision may be made based on such matrices of diagnostic information.
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A method implemented on at least one machine each of which has at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for computer aided medical diagnosis, comprising:
- obtaining, from a user via a user interface, identifying information to be used to obtain medically-related information;
- obtaining, automatically via a search engine, the medically-related information from different sources based on the identifying information;
- automatically forming, via a dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, a plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information in a hierarchy, where a matrix at each level in the hierarchy is an assembly of organized medically-related information and generated by dynamically fusing different types of medically-related information from lower levels of the hierarchy, and each node in the hierarchy embeds a tool that can be activated when the diagnostic information is displayed;
- modifying, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, diagnostic information stored in at least one of the plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices;
- updating, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, the at least one hierarchically arranged matrix based on the modified diagnostic information stored therein to form updated hierarchically arranged matrices;
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- computing, via the machine processor, a medical decision based on the updated hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information, wherein
- diagnostic information at any node of any level in the hierarchy is accessible and can be manipulated by the user interactively based on a data manipulation tool embedded with the diagnostic information,
- diagnostic information at a level of the hierarchy can be dynamically fused with that at a same or a different level of the hierarchy based on a tool embedded with the diagnostic information, and
- a result of the fusing is propagated within the hierarchy.
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A system for computer aided medical diagnosis, comprising:
- an interface configured to facilitate to obtain identifying information to be used to obtain medically-related information;
- a search engine configured to obtain, automatically, the medically-related information from different sources based on the identifying information;
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- a dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform configured to:
- automatically form a plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information in a hierarchy, where a matrix at each level in the hierarchy is an assembly of organized medically-related information and generated by dynamically fusing different types of medically-related information from lower levels of the hierarchy, and each node in the hierarchy embeds a tool that can be activated when the diagnostic information is displayed,
- modify diagnostic information stored in at least one of the plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices,
- update the at least one hierarchically arranged matrix based on the modified diagnostic information stored therein to form updated hierarchically arranged matrices, and
- compute, via a machine processor, a medical decision based on the updated hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information, wherein
- diagnostic information at any node of any level in the hierarchy is accessible and can be manipulated by a user interactively based on a data manipulation tool embedded with the diagnostic information,
- diagnostic information at a level of the hierarchy can be dynamically fused with that at a same or a different level of the hierarchy based on a tool embedded with the diagnostic information, and
- a result of the fusing is propagated within the hierarchy.
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A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon where the instructions, when accessed, enable the following:
- obtaining, from a user via a user interface, identifying information to be used to obtain medically-related information;
- obtaining, automatically via a search engine, the medically-related information from different sources based on the identifying information;
- automatically forming, via a dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, a plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information in a hierarchy, where a matrix at each level in the hierarchy is an assembly of organized medically-related information and generated by dynamically fusing different types of medically-related information from lower levels of the hierarchy, and each node in the hierarchy embeds a tool that can be activated when the diagnostic information is displayed;
- modifying, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, diagnostic information stored in at least one of the plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices:
- updating, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, the at least one hierarchically arranged matrix based on the modified diagnostic information stored therein to form updated hierarchically arranged matrices;
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- computing, via a machine processor, a medical decision based on the updated hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information, wherein,
- diagnostic information at any node of any level in the hierarchy is accessible and can be manipulated by the user interactively based on a data manipulation tool embedded with the diagnostic information,
- diagnostic information at a level of the hierarchy can be dynamically fused with that at a same or a different level of the hierarchy based on a tool embedded with the diagnostic information, and
- a result of the fusing is propagated within the hierarchy.
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A method implemented on at least one machine each of which has at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for computer aided medical diagnosis, comprising:
- obtaining, automatically via a search engine, medically-related information from different sources based on identifying information obtained from a user;
- automatically forming, via a dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, a plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information in a hierarchy, where a matrix at each level in the hierarchy is an assembly of organized medically-related information and generated by dynamically fusing different types of medically-related information from lower levels of the hierarchy, and each node in the hierarchy embeds a tool that can be activated when the diagnostic information is displayed;
- modifying, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, diagnostic information stored in at least one of the plurality of hierarchically arranged matrices;
- updating, via the dynamic diagnostic decision matrix platform, the at least one hierarchically arranged matrix based on the modified diagnostic information stored therein to form updated hierarchically arranged matrices;
- and
- computing, via the machine processor, a medical decision based on the updated hierarchically arranged matrices of diagnostic information, wherein
- diagnostic information at any node of any level in the hierarchy is accessible and can be manipulated by the user interactively based on a data manipulation tool embedded with the diagnostic information,
- diagnostic information at a level of the hierarchy can be dynamically fused with that at a same or a different level of the hierarchy based on a tool embedded with the diagnostic information, and
- a result of the fusing is propagated within the hierarchy.
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