Intelligent management of computerized advanced processing

• US 10,672,512 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2016
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Merative US LP
• Original Assignee: Merge Healthcare Solutions Incorporated (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Fram, Evan K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhatnagar, Anand P
• Application Number:
  US15/188,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046014A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically managing how and when computerized advanced processing techniques (for example, CAD and/or other image processing) are used. In some embodiments, the systems and methods discussed herein allow users, such as radiologists, to efficiently interact with a wide variety of computerized advanced processing (“CAP”) techniques using computing devices ranging from picture archiving and communication system (“PACS”) workstations to handheld devices such as smartphone and tablets. Furthermore, the systems and methods may, in various embodiments, automatically manage how data associated with these CAP techniques (for example, results of application of one or more computerized advanced processing techniques) are used, such as how data associated with the computerized analyzes is reported, whether comparisons to prior abnormalities should be automatically initiated, whether the radiologist should be alerted of important findings, and the like.

Claims

1. A computing system comprising:

one or more hardware computer processors configured to execute software instructions; and

one or more electronic storage devices in communication with the one or more hardware computer processors and storing software modules, the software modules comprising software instructions configured for execution by the one or more hardware computer processors in order to cause the computing system to;

access, from one or more image storage devices, one or more image series, each of the one or more image series comprising one or more medical images;

access a computerized advanced processing data structure, the data structure including one or more rules indicating computerized advanced processing techniques available to process an image series based upon characteristics of the one or more medical images, the characteristics being associated with medical data;

determine one or more computerized advanced processing techniques available to process a particular image series of the one or more image series based on the one or more rules and the characteristics of the medical images of the particular image series; and

generate a user interface for display to a user, the user interface indicating to a user the one or more computerized advanced processing techniques that are available to process the particular image series.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes interface controls that are selectable by the user to initiate execution of the computerized advanced processing techniques indicated in the user interface.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein medical data includes at least a medical image, an image series, or an imaging exam including one or more image series.