Rules-based approach to transferring and/or viewing medical images
AssigneeD.R. Systems, Inc.
InventorsMurray A. Reicher, Evan K. Fram
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Abstract
Systems and methods that allow transfer criteria to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, or device, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images are downloaded, viewed, stored, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to particular images.
Claims17
A method of selecting medical images of an image series for transfer, the method comprising:
- by a computing device executing software, performing operations comprising:
- accessing transfer criteria associated with a first computing device, the transfer criteria indicating thin slice criteria for determining whether respective medical images of an image series are classified as thin slices, wherein the thin slice criteria indicate a a minimum quantity of medical images in the image series for classification of the medical images of the image series as thin slice images;
- selecting a first group of medical images of the image series that are thin slice images as indicated by the thin slice criteria;
- and
- initiating transfer of the first group of medical images to the first computing device, wherein medical images of the image series that are not in the first group are not transferred to the first computing device.
A method comprising:
- by a computing device comprising hardware, performing operations comprising:
- accessing thin slice criteria for determining whether respective medical images of an image series are classified as thin slices, the thin slice criteria indicating a minimum quantity of medical images in an image series for classification of the image series as a thin slice image series;
- selecting a thin slice series of medical images that matches the thin slice criteria;
- selecting a non-thin slice series of medical images that does not match the thin slice criteria;
- and
- transferring or displaying the thin slice series in a different manner than the non-thin slice series, such that either the images of the thin slice series are selectively not transferred, selectively transferred with lower priority, selectively transferred but not displayed, or selectively transferred but otherwise displayed or processed in a selectively different manner.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instruction stored thereon, the instructions configured for reading by a computing device in order to cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- accessing transfer criteria associated with a first computing device and a first user, the transfer criteria indicating thin slice criteria for determining whether respective medical images of an image series are classified as thin slice images, wherein the thin slice criteria include at least one of a maximum quantity of medical images in the image series for classification of the medical images of the image series as thin slice images or a minimum quantity of medical images in the image series for classification of the medical images of the image series as thin slice images;
- selecting a first group of medical images of an image series that are not thin slices as indicated by the thin slice criteria;
- and
- initiating transfer of the first group of medical images to the first computing device, wherein medical images of the image series that are not in the first group are not transferred to the first computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.